FullStack Monitoring with Open Telemetry: End-to-End Observability for Modern Applications

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In this talk, I’ll show how to instrument applications end-to-end with OpenTelemetry, capturing metrics, traces, and logs across the entire request lifecycle. You’ll learn to pinpoint errors, understand why they happen, and fix them faster – guided by real-world examples and a starter template for quick adoption.

You’ll also see how to turn telemetry into automated insights using MCPs (Model Context Protocol) to generate reports from your observability stack. Using a Grafana MCP to produce incident summaries, release health reports, and diagnostics with open-source tooling.

This talk has been presented at JSNation 2026, check out the latest edition of this JavaScript Conference.

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Erick Wendel

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