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Accelerating Incident Response with OpenTelemetry and MCP: Building Agentic Observability System

Rejected
Session Description

The growing complexity of cloud-native environments has made incident detection and remediation increasingly challenging, with engineers often spending precious hours sifting through disconnected telemetry data. This talk demonstrates how Model Context Protocol (MCP) which an open protocol for building agent applications bridges the gap between OpenTelemetry data and AI-powered analysis to dramatically reduce Mean Time to Recovery.

We'll explore an architecture where MCP server tools ingest OTel logs, metrics, and traces, analyzing them for anomalies through context-aware AI models. When issues are detected, another MCP server tool automatically generates insightful reports and dispatches targeted notifications via Slack and email, creating a robust agentic reporting system. Thus the attendees will be to understand how to build their own agentic observability pipelines with the help of MCP.

Key Takeaways

MCP enhances incident detection and reporting speed, reducing downtime and improving service reliability. and this is Compatible with OpenTelemetry, ensuring easy adoption in existing observability workflows.

Thus this enables teams to build custom agentic applications that address their specific observability needs.

References

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol

Session Categories

Tutorial about using a FOSS project
Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project
Contributing to FOSS
Technology architecture
Engineering practice - productivity, debugging
Technology / FOSS licenses, policy
Knowledge Commons (Open Hardware, Open Science, Open Data etc.)
Which track are you applying for?
Main track

Speakers

Shivay Lamba
Developer Experience Engineer | Couchbase

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.

He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and has also been a MLH Fellow. He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

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Shivay Lamba

Reviews

This doesn't seem to be an actual project, but merely an application of the MCP.

We would like to see either a story of a project from Inception to Growth or a FOSS project technical overview, but this seems more like a cool demo, so at best it could be a lightning talk.

Reviewer #1 Rejected