# OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and Fir: Putting it All Together

DevFeed: [OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and Fir: Putting it All Together](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/opentelemetry-kubernetes-and-fir-putting-it-all-together-26478.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/opentelemetry-kubernetes-fir-putting-it-all-together/>)

Author: Ken W. Alger

Published: 2025-07-09T15:00:13Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>)

Tags: [alternatives](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/alternatives.md>), [buildpacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/buildpacks.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [datadog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datadog.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [fir](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fir.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [jaeger](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jaeger.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [performance-optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-optimization.md>), [sdks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdks.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Heroku's Fir cloud platform uses Kubernetes for automated scaling, self-healing, and resource management while exposing a Heroku interface to users. It also describes how OpenTelemetry standardizes telemetry collection and enables distributed tracing, performance diagnosis, and routing data to different monitoring backends without vendor lock-in.

## Source excerpt

Modern cloud-native architectures are composed of multiple microservices running across dynamic environments. Effectively diagnosing performance issues, bottlenecks, or failures requires comprehensive observability. For this, many organizations look to OpenTelemetry, which provides a standardized approach to capturing and analyzing telemetry data. Fir is Heroku's next generation cloud platform, designed to offer more modern cloud-native capabilities with [...] The post OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and Fir: Putting it All Together appeared first on Heroku.