Meet CNCF Ambassador Kasper Borg Nissen at Tech Hub Aarhus Day 

“The Observability Platform Advantage: OpenTelemetry + Kubernetes” is the headline of Kasper’s presentation.

Kubernetes has become the default platform for modern workloads, but observability often lags behind. Teams still struggle with fragmented signals: logs that don’t align with traces, metrics that miss the bigger picture, and a lack of correlation that turns incident response into detective work.

OpenTelemetry is changing that by unifying how we collect and connect traces, metrics, logs, and even profiling data and real user monitoring. But it only becomes powerful when paired with platform engineering principles: providing observability as a service, reducing developer toil, and making visibility a built-in feature of the platform.

In this session, Kasper explores how correlated signals drive faster debugging and better decision-making, why open standards are key to scaling observability, and how platform teams can empower developers without extra burden. Kasper will close the session with a live demo of the OpenTelemetry Operator, showing how auto-instrumentation on Kubernetes creates golden paths to observability - no code changes required.

Kasper is a CNCF Ambassador, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, KCD Denmark Organizer, and CNCG Group Organizer. He co-founded Cloud Native Nordics to unite meetups across the region. As a Developer Advocate at Dash0, he helps make observability easy for developers by advocating for better tooling, best practices, and seamless integrations. Bridging observability and platform engineering, he ensures developers stay productive and gain actionable insights exactly when needed.