Observability & Monitoring in Cloud Native Telco World – Tying... Dorian Lenzner & Roman Szczepanski
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2023-04-20

Observability & Monitoring in Cloud Native Telco World – Tying It Together - Dorian Lenzner & Roman Szczepanski, Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH

As a telecommunications provider, stability and observability & monitoring as means to the end have always been an important topic. The entire service chain from RAN to Core and its neighboring systems have tools in place and are mature in their operations and processes. When attempting to integrate the Cloud-native 5G Core at Deutsche Telekom into this existing ecosystem a lot of challenges need to be tackled. Obviously, no core telco applications have been run on Kubernetes before in production. For the new Core, well known tools of the k8s ecosystem are being used for metrics, logging and alerts. Tools like log shipping agents have been evaluated, integrated and already been replaced again due to our learnings. NWDAF looms on the horizon to further push the observability topic. But how do small, incremental changes that are the usual in the cloud native world play together with existing systems that measure their uptime in months and stability in a lot of nines and have their monitoring fine tuned to react to the slightest of disturbances? The session will shine some light on the path towards full production launch we are currently heading down at Deutsche Telekom with a focus on monitoring and observability.