IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
The Sched app allows you to build your schedule but is not a substitute for your event registration. In order to attend OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, please visit our website to register.
This schedule is automatically displayed in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). To see the schedule in your preferred timezone, please select from the drop-down located at the bottom of the menu to the right.
Sign up or log in to add sessions to your schedule and sync them to your phone or calendar.
Choosing the right ingestion tool for OpenSearch is a critical architectural decision. Should you use the OpenTelemetry Collector or Data Prepper? This session provides a definitive guide to answering that question, helping you design a pipeline that is both powerful and efficient.
This talk moves beyond theory into a practical comparison of design philosophies. We'll contrast the Collector's strength as a universal, lightweight agent with a vast component ecosystem, against Data Prepper's role as a purpose-built pipeline engine, optimized for powerful transformations and accessible stateful processing.
To make this concrete, the session will showcase the setup of a complete hybrid pipeline, walking through the necessary configurations. We will then deconstruct a real-world APM pipeline architecture to show how Collector and Data Prepper fulfill distinct roles in processing data before it reaches OpenSearch.
You'll leave with a clear decision framework, proven architectural patterns, and a blueprint for building your own scalable observability pipelines.
Karsten is a Software Architect at SAP. He works in the observabilty area of the SAP Business Technology Platform. Karsten is a member of the OpenSearch technical steering committee and maintainer of the Data Prepper project. He is also a member of the OpenSearch TAG Observabilit... Read More →
