eAfterWork EP 9: What Every Leader Needs to Know

In this episode of eAfterWork, Severin Neumann, OpenTelemetry maintainer, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee, and one of the people who writes and maintains the official OpenTelemetry documentation, helps us understand why OpenTelemetry matters for both technical and non-technical leaders, how it’s shaping the future of observability, and what you really need to know to make the right decisions.

2025-12-03 · Aziz IM, Severin Neumann · Video · Interview with eAfterWork

Purposeful OpenTelemetry

Organizations collect far more telemetry than they use. The result? Exponential costs, PII risks, and still no root cause when incidents happen. In this technical session, Yuri Oliveira (OllyGarden) and Severin Neumann (Causely) demonstrate: How to identify instrumentation problems at the source Why traces and semantic conventions enable purposeful telemetry How quality telemetry enables causal reasoning at scale

2025-11-26 · Yuri Oliveira Sá, Severin Neumann · Video · Interview with OllyGarden

Why Traditional SRE Breaks in Kubernetes Scale

AI-powered SRE isn’t about throwing alerts into an LLM and hoping it magically fixes production. In this conversation from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Atlanta, Severin Neumann, Head of Community at Causely, explains why real AI-SRE starts long before an incident ever happens. Neumann breaks down how teams can shift reliability left, predict failures before rollout, and rely on deterministic causal reasoning instead of correlation-driven LLM guesses. He also explains why many SRE teams burn hours chasing hallucinated remediation paths — and how causal models eliminate that risk. ...

2025-11-17 · Swapnil Bhartiya, Severin Neumann · Video · Interview With TFiR

What's New in Otel?

Been too busy to keep up with what’s going on in the OTel space? No worries—we’ve been there, too! That’s why we’ve put together this new series for you (and for ourselves). Catch up on significant updates to the project, connect with special guest maintainers, and get the chance to ask questions during the audience Q&A. Join us for the very first episode, where we’ll chat with special guests Severin Neumann, OpenTelemetry GC & Maintainer, and Marylia Gutierrez, Contributor Experience Maintainer & JS SDK Approver, about the latest and greatest in OTel. ...

2025-10-21 · Adriana Villela, Reese Lee, Lisa Jung, Marylia Gutierrez, Severin Neumann · Video · Interview with OpenTelemetry End User SIG

From Root Cause to Business Impact with Causely and ClickStack by ClickHouse

See how Causely and ClickStack by ClickHouse help teams fix failures confidently and address their real-world impact.

2025-09-23 · Severin Neumann · Video · Demo video for Causely

The Software With Podcast: Find the Root Cause in Seconds

The interview with Severin Neumann examines his journey from writing his first line of code in PHP 3.0 to becoming a key figure in the world of OpenTelemetry. Severin shares insights into his career path, including his involvement with AppDynamics and Cisco, and his current role at Causely, where he focuses on Open Telemetry and causal reasoning for root cause analysis.

2025-09-10 · Jordi Mon Companys, Severin Neumann · Video · Interview with The Software With

The Modern Observability Roundtable: AI, Rising Costs and OpenTelemetry

In a distributed world of microservices, it’s simply not possible to set up monitors on everything that matters; we need the ability to deal with unexpected situations and react accordingly. Read and watch on The New Stack

2025-07-03 · Adam LaGreca, Paige Cruz, Shahar Azulay, Avi Freedman, Charity Majors, Severin Neumann · Video · Roundtable for The New Stack

The Humans OpenTelemetry - KubeCon EU 2024

We’re back with our second edition of Humans of OpenTelemetry, this time from KubeCon EU in Paris. Reese Lee and Adriana Villela interviewed OpenTelemetry contributors and end users, to learn how they got involved with OTel and what observability means to them.

OpenTelemetry: Project Updates, Next Steps, and AMA

2024-03-23 · Severin Neumann · Video · published on YouTube

#101 Observability und OpenTelemetry mit Severin Neumann

In dieser Episode sprechen wir mit dem Experten Severin Neumann über Observability und OpenTelemetry. Wir diskutieren den Unterschied zwischen Monitoring und Observability, die verschiedenen Signale (Metrics, Logs, Traces), wie OpenTelemetry als offener Standard funktioniert, und wie Entwickler OpenTelemetry in ihre Anwendungen integrieren können. Listen to the full episode on engineeringkiosk.dev

2023-12-12 · Andy Grunwald, Wolfgang Gassler, Severin Neumann · Video · Interview with Engineering Kiosk