Observability Day North America 2024
2024-11-12
Salt Lake City, United States
who it's for
observability engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, backend developers, devops engineers, cloud architects, engineering managers
topics
OpenTelemetry Operator troubleshooting; OpenTelemetry collector processing; eBPF continuous profiling; correlating profiles with traces; OpenTelemetry YAML configuration; Fluent Bit file log collection; Prometheus remote_write 2.0; observability volume cost management; profiling LLMs on Kubernetes; OpenTelemetry for WebAssembly; auto-instrumentation strategies; distributed tracing warning signs
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Anna Kapuścińska, Austin Parker, Eduardo Silva | 03m |
Fourth annual conference opens with sponsor roll call naming chronosphere and IBM as Diamond sponsors plus Grafana Labs, Mesmo, Honeycomb.io, Cloudfuse and… | ||
| Observability Projects Updates | Bart PKA | 33m |
Prometheus ships a major Prometheus 3.0 refresh with a faster UI, UTF‑8 storage/UI, and a new remote_write 2.0 protocol that sends exemplars/metadata more… | ||
| Profiling Mastery: Decode Your Data and Elevate Observability | Frederic Branczyk | 26m |
Sampling CPU profiling using an eBPF agent and an OTLP-compatible wire format produces sampled stack traces, visualized as icicle/flame graphs and cumulative… | ||
| Collecting and Processing OTEL Data at Scale | Anurag Gupta | 05m |
Claims that a stack built on Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry processes petabytes a day for large orgs, including a LinkedIn use case, by adding a dedicated… | ||
| But Wait! There's...Still More‽ - Observability Data Volumes and Strategies for Managing Them | Éamon Ryan | 30m |
Shows telemetry growth hitting terabytes to petabytes per month and names concrete pain points: storage, write/ingest costs, read/index costs, and ops… | ||
| When Things Go Sideways: Troubleshooting the OTel Operator | Adriana Villela, Reese Lee | 24m |
Covers concrete installation and troubleshooting steps for the OpenTelemetry Operator: Kubernetes >=1.23, install cert-manager (or provision TLS) before the… | ||
| Perfect Match: Correlating Continuous Profiling with Distributed Tracing for Stronger Observability | Jonas Kunz, Christos Kalkanis | 25m |
A low‑overhead eBPF profiler (donated to OpenTelemetry) samples CPU stacks (~20 Hz) and writes service/resource and trace context into native thread-local… | ||
| Simplifying OpenTelemetry with Configuration | Alex Boten, Jack Berg | 26m |
OpenTelemetry introduces a language‑agnostic file config that parses YAML into a JSON‑schema data model and then parses then creates SDK components so one YAML… | ||
| Panel: OpenTelemetry: Bridging Platform and Enablement | Daniel Gomez Blanco, Ariel Valentin, Hazel Weakly, Suman Karumuri, Vijay Samuel | 34m |
Companies standardize on a managed stack and bootstrapped SDKs so most apps need no manual instrumentation, and an OTEL collector sidecar runs on pods and… | ||
| Optimizing LLM Efficiency One Trace at a Time on Kubernetes | Aditya Soni, Seema Saharan | 25m |
Deploys a FastAPI service running Hugging Face GPT‑2 on Kubernetes, instruments code with OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler and the Python/Elastic agent, and uses… | ||
| Observing the Future: Embracing OTEL in WebAssembly | Victor Adossi | 27m |
Claims full OpenTelemetry support in wasmCloud with full OpenTelemetry trifecta: traces, metrics and logs; demonstrates compiling Go (TinyGo) to WASM, using a… | ||
| Where’s the Auto in Auto-Instrumentation? A Look at Current Automation Strategies with OTel | Joshua Lee | 25m |
Documentation for auto-instrumentation improves but practical details matter: OpenTelemetry now covers 11 languages and uses specific mechanisms like Node.js… | ||
| Enhancing Asynchronous Communication Observability with OpenTelemetry | Liudmila Molkova, Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava | 23m |
Demo shows OpenTelemetry plus the Messaging SemConv and an OpenTelemetry Collector JMX receiver or Prometheus JMX agent pulling Kafka broker metrics, then… | ||
| Measure What Matters | Jamie Danielson | 24m |
Explains how Honeycomb plus OpenTelemetry auto instrumentation plus selective custom spans turns noisy CPU and throughput pages into actionable signals: the… | ||
| Build-Time Auto-Instrumentation in Android | Jason Plumb | 26m |
Shows how OpenTelemetry build-time weaving uses the Byte Buddy Gradle plugin to inject instrumentation into Android APKs (demo adds one build line and a… | ||
| Unlocking Advanced Processing Capabilities with OpenTelemetry | Aunsh Chaudhari, Anthony Mirabella | 24m |
OpenTelemetry configuration examples show concrete wins: use the filter processor and OTL transforms to drop debug logs and normalize high‑cardinality… | ||
| The Road to Observability Everywhere at Monday.Com | David Gohberg | 21m |
monday.com implements trace-driven testing using OpenTelemetry and Tracetest, asserting on spans across database, cache, analytics and downstream queues. The… | ||
| Turn the Volume Down on Noisy Neighbors! | Sandor Guba | 26m |
A Kubernetes operator called Telemetry Controller runs on top of the OpenTelemetry Collector to turn telemetry into native k8s resources: Collector CRs with… | ||
| Distributed Tracing: All the Warning Signs Were Out There!!! | Vijay Samuel, Sandeep Raveesh | 26m |
eBay reports 6.5M spans/sec with 14-day retention and solves adoption by shipping OpenTelemetry instrumentation through a mandatory managed framework, plus… | ||
| How We Streamlined Our SDLC with Observability - from GitHUB via Jenkins, Harbor, Argo to K8S | Michael Gläss, Andreas Grabner | 27m |
Company runs ~2,000 developers across three clouds and wires Backstage, GitHub, Jenkins, Harbor, Argo, Crossplane and Prometheus into OpenTelemetry and… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: Vote on Your Favorite--Standardize This!--10 PromQL Queries That Measure CPU & Memory Usage | Sarah Hudspeth | 10m |
Migration work across Otel and Prom exporters surfaces why there is no single PromQL CPU or memory query: translations from SignalFx, Wavefront and others… | ||
| Enabling Intelligent Observability Volume Management | Priyanka Naik, Vaishnavi Hire | 23m |
OVM is an open source pipeline component that sits between collectors and central aggregators and performs dynamic, edge‑side transformations such as… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Deep Dive: How Fluent Bit Collects File Logs | Braydon Kains | 10m |
Fluent Bit’s tail plugin describes exact mechanics: it globs paths, calls stat/open, and tracks files by device+inode lookup (not filename), optionally… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Is OpenTelemetry Too Complicated to Get Started? | Pranay Prateek | 10m |
Highlights problems getting started with OpenTelemetry backed by SigNoz experience with 19,000 GitHub stars and helping thousands of users: unclear collector… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Observability Migration Worst Case Scenarios | Bill Hineline | 10m |
Migration pain comes from vague requirements, surprise vendor pricing, and skipping developer enablement, not the idea of a new platform. The talk gives a… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Anna Kapuścińska, Austin Parker, Eduardo Silva | 04m |
Event wraps with explicit logistics and next steps: conference thanks Diamond sponsors Chronosphere and IBM and lists 40 speakers and about 25 sessions; it… | ||
| IBM Instana's Automated Resource Optimization Powered by IBM Turbon... | Joe Sforza | 03m |
Integration pairs IBM Instana observability with IBM Turbonomic optimization to capture 100% of calls and traces and trigger automated infrastructure actions… | ||
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