Smooth Scaling With the OpAMP Supervisor: Managing Thousands of OpenTe... Evan Bradley & Andy Keller
Evan Bradley, Andy Keller
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
In the dynamic landscape of modern distributed systems, managing vast fleets of observability agents is a critical yet complex challenge. The "Smooth Scaling With the OpAMP Supervisor" talk at KubeCon EU, presented by Andy Keller from BindPlane and Evan Bradley from Datadog, delved into the **Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP)** and its pivotal role in remotely managing thousands of OpenTelemetry Collectors. This session provided an essential update on the OpAMP protocol, showcased the **OpAMP Supervisor** as a robust solution for agent management, and demonstrated its capabilities in real-world scenarios.
AI review
This talk by Keller and Bradley delivers a substantive update on OpAMP, specifically highlighting the OpAMP Supervisor as a critical architectural solution for managing large fleets of OpenTelemetry Collectors. It details recent protocol enhancements like heartbeats and available components, demonstrating how these features, combined with the supervisor, enable robust, centralized configuration and lifecycle management at scale. The session offers actionable insights for platform engineers and SREs grappling with distributed observability agent deployments.