KubeCon - Quick Guide to Prometheus Day North America

Today I was on site in Detroit at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon pre-event Prometheus Day North America. 

It was on-site at the Huntington Place Convention Center in room 360, which is on the river with views across the water into Canada. Just a bit of geography as many attendees I spoke with were not aware that Detroit was so close to the northern US border.

The full schedule for Open Observability Day is available online but wanted to share an overview impression of what it was like to be there.

The day is centered around all the CNCF projects related to Prometheus and observability. Let's look closer at my impressions of the sessions I found interesting.

KubeCon - Summary of the Open Observability Day North America

Today was the one day inaugural event known as Open Observability Day, held as one of the off-site options before the full KubeCon and CloudNativeCon event this week in Detroit.

It was on-site at the Huntington Place Convention Center, which is on the river with views across the water into Canada. Just a bit of geography as many attendees I spoke with were not aware that Detroit was so close to the northern US border.

The full schedule for Open Observability Day is available online but wanted to share an overview impression of what it was like to be there.

The day is centered around all the CNCF projects related to open observability and is full of both vendors and project focused talks.

Let's look closer at my impressions of the sessions I found interesting.

Webinar - How to Wrestle Your Observability Data Demons and Win!

This week I presented, together with Scott Kelly a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Chronosphere, a webinar talking about the advantages of a platform that gives you control over your observability data. 

This webinar is now available on demand and below you will find the slides we used and the details around the presentation.

O11y Guide - Keeping Your Cloud Native Observability Options Open

This is the fourth article in the series covering my journey into the world of cloud native observability. If you missed any of the previous articles, head on back to the introduction for a quick update.

After laying out the groundwork for this series in the initial article, I spent some time in the second article sharing who the observability players are. I also discussed the teams that these players are on in this world of cloud native o11y. For the third article I looked at the ongoing discussion around monitoring pillars versus phases.

Being a developer from my early days in IT, it's been very interesting to explore the complexities of cloud native o11y. Monitoring applications goes way beyond just writing and deploying code, especially in the cloud native world. One thing remains the same, maintaining your organization's architecture always requires both a vigilant outlook and an understanding of available open standards.

In this forth article I'm going to look at architecture level choices being made and share the open standards with the open source landscape. 

PromCon EU 2022: Centralized vs. Decentralized - How DoorDash Collects Prometheus Metrics (accepted)

This year PromCon EU 2022 in Munich, Germany is the seventh edition where all things dedicated to the open source Prometheus monitoring system are on display. 

The last in person edition was in 2019 and you can see what that was like in their video recap.

As they state on their website, this conference is to "...connect Prometheus users and developers from around the world in order to exchange knowledge, best practices, and experience gained around using Prometheus. We also want to collaborate to build a community and grow professional connections around systems and service monitoring."

Since the event will be in person this year it seemed like a great idea to submit something technically interesting and we happen to have a great story to tell with a customer around centralized verses decentralized metrics collection at a very large scale.

Trajectory 2022 - Shifting Cloud Native Observability to the Left

Just this last month I was made aware of Trajectory 2022, a virtual conference. This conference is about exploring how development, engineering, and product teams are modernizing software development and delivery.

It's a two day conference spanning 9-10 November and speakers will share challenges, tips, insights and more from the frontlines of feature management. It sounded like a great venue for sharing some insights into how cloud native observability applies to your product releases and production environments in the modern cloud world.

The following talk I'm sharing touches on one of my favorite topics, how the promise of DevOps has led developers down a path that is totally unsatisfying in the cloud native world.