KubeCon welcomes Alan Shimel and guest Stephane Estevez from Cisco/Splunk, who discusses his background and Splunk’s transformation into a cybersecurity and observability leader. The conversation highlights the significance of OpenTelemetry for data collection, with new features announced to improve auto-instrumentation. They also highlight Splunk’s ongoing support for the open-source community and its future role in OpenTelemetry.