Cloud Native London Meetup - Taking Back Control of Your Telemetry Data with Fluent Bit

 I'm heading back to the Cloud Native London meetup this week, having been given the opportunity to present due to a speaker canceling.

I am always happy to help out and the hop to London from the Netherlands is a short and easy trip.

They have +7,000 members and it is, "...the official Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Meetup group dedicated to building a strong, open, diverse developer community around the Cloud Native platform and technologies in London." You can also find them on their own slack channel, so feel free to drop in for a quick chat if you like.

The sessions I've presented previously include one from January 2023 about the pitfalls everyone should avoid with cloud data and a recording is available online if you want to revisit. Another session I shared was in January of 2024 on the pitfalls in observability in the form of a choose your own adventure talk which you can also watch the recording online.

Tomorrow, on Wednesday, 7 August in London I'll be sharing some brand new content on taking back control of your telemetry data. 

The event details can be found online, but here is the invite email details sent when you register:

The agenda for the August Cloud Native London Meetup is now up. If you're not able to join us, don't forget to update your RSVP before 10am on Wednesday! Or alternatively, join us via the Youtube stream without signing up.

Check out the three fantastic speakers we've got lined up for you on Wednesday, 7 August:

• 6:00 Pizza and drinks
• 6:30 Welcome
• 6:45 Migrating Kubernetes Cluster from one provider to another (Surya Pandian, TrueLayer)
• 7:15 Taking back control of your telemetry data with Fluent Bit (Eric D. Schabell, Chronosphere)
• 
  7:45 Break
• 8:00 Alex Easaw, Searce Inc (Talk TBC)
• 8:30 Wrap up

See you there!

My talk is a new idea that I've been working on for a bit now. I want to share insights into the use cases and get people hands on with telemetry pipelines using Fluent Bit. This talk is about getting you started using it hands-on and is supported by a workshop the attendees can complete post-event. Here's my talk abstract:

Taking Back Control of Your Telemetry Data with Fluent Bit

It's time you stopped letting your telemetry data pressure your budgets and get in the way of solving issues with agility! No more I say! Take back control of your telemetry data as we guide you through the open source project Fluent Bit. Learn how to manage your telemetry data from source to destination using the pipeline phases covering collection, parsing, aggregation, transformation, and forwarding from any source to any destination. Buckle up for a fun ride as you learn by exploring how telemetry pipelines work, how to set up your first pipeline, and exploring several common use cases that Fluent Bit helps solve. All this backed by a self-paced, hands-on workshop that attendees can pursue at home after this session (https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-fluentbit).

Looking forward to meeting everyone and if you can't attend, they will be live streaming from a video feed, so drop in virtually!