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title: Monthly Discussion Group
linkTitle: Monthly Discussions
description: Monthly OpenTelemetry usage discussions, all are welcome!
---

Interested in learning how other end users are implementing OpenTelemetry in
their organizations? Come talk shop with other OpenTelemetry end users! This is
a vendor-neutral space to discuss best practices, ask questions, and meet other
observability-minded folks.

Feedback that is shared and collected in these sessions will be routed back to
the relevant project maintainers to help drive prioritization of improvements
and changes to the project.

**New for 2023!**

- APAC (Asia Pacific) sessions begin, come join the first session on January 18!
- A project maintainer and/or a Governance Committee member will be in
  attendance at each session to provide additional context, insight, and plans
  to user questions and feedback.
- The Chatham House Rule will no longer be applied, and **sessions will be
  recorded**. This will help make the feedback more discoverable by the
  community.

**Upcoming sessions**

Here are upcoming sessions, or you can view them on the
[OpenTelemetry calendar](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community#calendar):

- **EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa)**: every third Tuesday of the month
  at 11AM CET (GMT +1), join
  [here](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85691064809?pwd=c0VCejh)
  - January 17
  - February 21
- **APAC (Asia Pacific)**: every third Wednesday of the month at 11AM IST (GMT
  +5.5), join
  [here](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82702918447?pwd=WllKc0hmdTNuelhFdlhMM1Q3TktSQT09)
  - January 18
  - February 15
- **AMER (Americas)**: every third Thursday of the month at 9AM PST (GMT -8),
  join
  [here](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87037874951?pwd=WGo3eUZpeWFZTlhJQXhJeXZhQmwvUT09)
  - January 19
  - February 16

Past topics/questions have included:

- Best practices on monitoring collectors in production
- Using OTel in CI/CD pipelines
- What’s holding you back from adopting more OpenTelemetry?
- Auto vs manual instrumentation use cases
- How to secure a publicly exposed OTel Collector?

We use a [Lean Coffee](https://leancoffee.org) format where discussion topics
are generated and democratically selected by the group at the start of the
meeting. Topics are rigorously time-boxed by a facilitator.
