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Why telemetry was a mess before #databricks

NextGenLakehouse

12 views12 Nov 2026

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In this NextGenLakehouse episode, I sit down with Robert (Bobby) Leach, a Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks, to trace observability from fragmented 1990s telemetry to today's open standard. We cover why "build a pipeline or pay Splunk/Datadog/New Relic" breaks at enterprise scale, how the 2019 merge of OpenCensus and OpenTracing created OpenTelemetry, and how Zerobus (part of Lakeflow Connect) now lands that telemetry directly in Unity Catalog. Full interview 👉 https://lnkd.in/eEdNJjYK

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