# Observability Data Centralization and Tracing Implementation

- Institution: CERN
- Speaker: Rishab Kumar Jha
- Year: 2026
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3026684)
- Licence: [CERN](https://copyright.web.cern)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

**Project Description**: Built a proof-of-concept for centralized observability and distributed tracing across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Unified metrics, logs, and traces into a single Grafana dashboard where you can pick any cluster and service and correlate all three, including jumping from a latency spike straight to the exact trace. Designed a scalable parent/child OpenTelemetry architecture in which each child cluster forwards spans to a central gateway that routes every trace consistently and tail-samples them, then stores them in Jaeger and OpenSearch. Evaluated instrumentation approaches (auto-instrumentation vs SDK), and took the pipeline toward production: measuring resource cost, reliability, and security, adding self-monitoring for the pipeline itself, and extending tracing to the edge with a native OpenTelemetry filter in HAProxy that can turn tracing on and off per service at runtime.

**Supervisor**: Daniel Gonçalves Portovedo, Antonio Nappi

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## Lectures

1. [Observability Data Centralization and Tracing Implementation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3026684/18dd7253f453), 7 min (CERN's player)