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OTel Unplugged 2026 was different by design. Held alongside FOSDEM in Brussels, this was an unconference built by the OpenTelemetry community, for the community. No sales pitches. No product demos. Just honest conversations about what’s working, what’s broken, and where OTel needs to go next. In this recap, you’ll hear short interviews and reflections from engineers, maintainers, and practitioners on.

How do you build an observability platform that keeps up with constant change? In this episode of Heartbeat Behind the Metrics, Srinivasa Raghavan Santhanam, Director of Product Management at Site24x7, reflects on more than 15 years with the product and what he sees as its quiet strengths. He talks about GenAI as a hidden gem inside Site24x7, and you'll hear a standout customer story where a large Indian enterprise replaced 12 different tools with Site24x7, consolidating everything into a single platform. For him, that moment confirmed the platform’s ability to solve multiple problems at scale.

In this video, we explain the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and how open, vendor-neutral standards make containers portable and interoperable across platforms, tools, and environments. We cover what OCI is, why OCI compliance matters, and how OCI defines the core building blocks of the container ecosystem: container images, runtimes, and distribution.