CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024: Full Schedule

9:00am MST

Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks

Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

9:10am MST

Observability Day Project Updates

Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

9:45am MST

Profiling Mastery: Decode Your Data and Elevate Observability - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals

Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Profiling offers powerful insights, but many developers and engineers find them intimidating. This session aims to demystify profiling data, turning novices into experts.

In this talk, Frederic will cover:

Fundamentals of Profiling: What is profiling, and what can you gain from it?
Decoding Flamegraphs: Learn how to read flamegraphs, turning raw data into actionable insights.
Real-World Applications: Discover how continuous profiling is revolutionizing observability within the Observability ecosystem.
Hands-On Examples: Practical demonstrations of open-source profiling tools and techniques, helping you apply what you learn immediately.

By the end of this talk, you will have the skills to make full use of profiling data, ensuring your applications run efficiently. Whether you're new to profiling or looking to refine your skills, this session will provide you with the knowledge to elevate your observability practices and become a cloud-native performance expert.

Speakers

Frederic Branczyk

Founder, Polar Signals

Frederic is the founder of Polar Signals. Before founding Polar Signals he was a senior principal engineer and main architect for all things Observability at Red Hat, joining through the CoreOS acquisition. Frederic is a Prometheus & Thanos maintainer and tenured as a tech lead for... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Uses of Open Source Tooling to Achieve Observability

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Collecting and Processing OTEL Data at Scale - Rob Skillington, Chronosphere

Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

With the move to microservices and distributed systems, the amount of telemetry data that organizations need to collect and analyze has skyrocketed. This session will include different methods and best practices for collecting telemetry data with OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit. In particular, we will talk about how to leverage Fluent Bit for custom processing of OpenTelemetry data at scale and a real-world use case from LinkedIn.

Speakers

Rob Skillington

CTO & Co-Founder, Chronosphere

Rob is co-founder and CTO of Chronosphere, an observability platform built for Cloud Native. He is a distinguished engineer and open source advocate who led the metrics and monitoring team at Uber. In that role, he built M3DB, an open source time series database. Rob is a frequent... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

10:25am MST

10:40am MST

But Wait! There's...Still More‽ - Observability Data Volumes and Strategies for Managing Them - Éamon Ryan, Grafana Labs

Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

As we add more observability signals and points of insight into the software we design, we create more and more data. Data that has to be processed. Data that has to be stored. Data that has to be iterated over and retrieved. All of this increases stress on the system that stores it which naturally increases costs to run the system both in infrastructure, people power and more. This talk takes people through the history of how these volumes have grown over time, then moves into the current strategies and tradeoffs for managing them. It also offers a glimpse into what might come into this space in the future.

Speakers

Éamon Ryan

Senior Principal Field Engineer, Grafana Labs

Éamon is a Senior Principal Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he builds and maintains internal and external environments, builds out advanced workshops, provides input on product use-cases and acts as a subject matter expert in some specific areas. He has held many customer-facing... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Managing the Ever-increasing Volume of Observability Data

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

11:15am MST

Simplifying OpenTelemetry with Configuration - Alex Boten, Honeycomb & Jack Berg, New Relic

Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Learning how to use a new tool, and using it well enough to get value out of it quickly is really important. Configuring OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation is essential, but programmatic configuration is cumbersome and environment variables are limited. OpenTelemetry file configuration is the community’s next generation config tool. Building on the original flattened environment variable based scheme, file configuration introduces tooling for configuring SDKs and instrumentation which accommodates the complexities of how people use OpenTelemetry in practice.

Come learn about:

What the OpenTelemetry Configuration Schema is and why it exists.
How language agnostic file configuration provides OpenTelemetry adopters the tools needed to support complex scenarios.
How various components in OpenTelemetry have adopted the configuration schema.
Using a single configuration to configure OpenTelemetry SDKs in multiple languages and the Collector.

Speakers

Jack Berg

Software Engineer, New Relic

I'm a member of OpenTelemetry Technical Committee and maintainer of OpenTelemetry Java. I've worked on a lot of components in OpenTelemetry, with an emphasis in metrics, logging, and configuration.

Alex Boten

Staff Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Alex Boten is a staff software engineer that has spent the last ten years helping organizations adapt to a cloud-native landscape by mashing keyboards. From building core network infrastructure to mobile client applications and everything in between, Alex has first-hand knowledge... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Project specific-Observability+Prometheus+OpenMetrics+OpenTelemetry+Jaeger+Thanos+Fluentd+Cortex+etc

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Observability Day

12:45pm MST

Panel: OpenTelemetry: Bridging Platform and Enablement - Daniel Gomez Blanco, Skyscanner; Ariel Valentin, GitHub; Hazel Weakly, Hachyderm; Suman Karumuri, Airbnb; Vijay Samuel, eBay

Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:45pm - 1:20pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

OpenTelemetry is everywhere, used by engineers in all roles. For telemetry data to provide effective observability it must permeate all areas of a software system, all the way up the domain-specific aspects that matter the most to end users. As a cross-cutting concern, it should be used within business logic to describe application internals. However, engineers in charge of developing new features are not always empowered with the modern observability practices supported by OpenTelemetry and, in a distributed environment, this may damage the overall observability of the system. In this panel, leaders from organizations at the forefront of this field take us through their experiences building platforms, tooling, enablement materials, and team topologies that allow them to scale adoption of OpenTelemetry best practices with minimal friction, and ensure that the telemetry data produced by their systems is of the highest quality, provides value, and maximizes return-on-investment.

Speakers

Daniel Gomez Blanco

Principal Software Engineer at Skyscanner, OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Member, Skyscanner

Observability lead at Skyscanner, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee, and author of "Practical OpenTelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization". Throughout my career, my main focus has been reducing the cognitive load required to operate... Read More →

Suman Karumuri

Principal Engineer, Airbnb

Suman Karumuri is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer and the tech lead for Observability at Slack. Suman Karumuri is an expert in distributed tracing and was a tech lead of Zipkin and a co-author of OpenTracing standard, a Linux Foundation project via the CNCF. Previously, Suman Karumuri... Read More →

Vijay Samuel

Principal MTS, Architect, eBay

Vijay Samuel works with eBay's observability platform as its architect. During his time at eBay Vijay has transformed eBay's observability platform into a cloud native offering that is primarily built on top of open source technologies. He loves to code in Go and play video games... Read More →

Ariel Valentin

Staff Software Engineer, GitHub

Staff Software Engineer on the Observability Infrastructure Team at GitHub and OpenTelemetry Ruby Contrib maintainer. Ariel has been a champion for Open Standards his entire career and is leading the effort to adopt OpenTelemetry at GitHub since 2020.

Hazel Weakly

Infrastructure Witch, hachyderm.io

Hazel spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. One of her favorite things is... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:45pm - 1:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, End-user Talks about Observability Implementations

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

1:30pm MST

Where’s the Auto in Auto-Instrumentation? a Look at Current Automation Strategies with OTel - Joshua Lee, Altinity

Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

“Automatic Instrumentation” can mean a lot of things depending on context. Whether we’re discussing the Instrumentation SDKs or full-kernel observability with eBPF, the promise is the same: end-to-end observability coverage with no custom code and minimal setup. First, I will review how the different mechanisms available for automatic instrumentation work within each of the 11 languages supported by OpenTelemetry. I’ll examine:

How code-path instrumentation works at the library level by diving into the Node.js OpenTelemetry Extension and the JavaScript libraries it supports
Automatic instrumentation via attachment with Java and Python
Automatic instrumentation injection using the OTel Operator for DotNet, Java, and NodeJS

Finally, I’ll take a peek at the future of automatic instrumentation of compiled binaries with a look at the Go instrumentation library built using eBPF.

Speakers

Josh Lee

Open Source Developer Advocate, Altinity

Joshua is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. Currently, Joshua serves as a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he creates educational... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Uses of Open Source Tooling to Achieve Observability

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

2:05pm MST

Measure What Matters - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Have you ever had an alert go off that you immediately ignore? It’s a nuisance alert, not actionable, but you keep it around just in case. Have you ever looked at your trace waterfall and wondered what exactly happened during that gap that just doesn’t drill down deep enough to surface meaningful details? Do you know the feeling where you have just enough information to sort of monitor what’s going on in your systems, but not quite enough to put your mind at ease or feel like you know where to look when things go wrong? These experiences are almost universally known, something that everyone can relate to at some point in their observability journey. This session will help tackle common pitfalls, offering strategic ways to improve your observability. Armed with a mix of tailored custom instrumentation and well-reasoned SLOs, you’ll walk away able to help yourself and your team sleep better at night knowing you are measuring what matters and reducing the noise of unhelpful alerts.

Speakers

Jamie Danielson

Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb where she works on instrumentation libraries. She is an active contributor to multiple OpenTelemetry projects, and is an approver for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. When she’s not working she’s playing dek hockey.

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Managing the Ever-increasing Volume of Observability Data

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

2:40pm MST

Unlocking Advanced Processing Capabilities with OpenTelemetry - Aunsh Chaudhari, Splunk & Anthony Mirabella, AWS

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 3:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

OpenTelemetry stands at the forefront of modern observability, providing a robust framework for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data in complex distributed systems. In this session, we will go over how you can benefit from the processing capabilities of OpenTelemetry, presenting an exploration of different features and their potential impact on optimizing observability. We will talk through some real world examples and best practices allowing you to control costs, reduce data volume, balance overhead, and focus on critical telemetry data. By the end of this session, you will know how to transform, filter, sample and route data effectively at scale with OpenTelemetry.

Speakers

Anthony Mirabella

Senior Software Dev Engineer, AWS

Anthony is a Senior SDE at Amazon Web Services working on Open Source data collection tools and services. He has contributed to the OpenTelemetry project since 2019 in a variety of roles.

Aunsh Chaudhari

Senior Product Manager, Splunk

Aunsh is a Product Manager at Splunk focused on helping users adopt Observability with OpenTelemetry. He has a keen interest in cloud native technologies and open source projects. Prior to Splunk, Aunsh worked closely with engineering and product at Shutterfly on the User Media Assets... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Managing the Ever-increasing Volume of Observability Data

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

3:20pm MST

The Road to Observability Everywhere at Monday.Com - David Gohberg, monday.com

Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Our team at monday.com has experienced explosive growth over the past four years. We prioritized enabling tracing and observability across our distributed app. However, we did not have robust end-to-end tests. Building reliable end-to-end tests for distributed apps is hard! We decided to use OpenTelemetry tracing for end-to-end testing as well and adhering to our “Observability Everywhere” mantra! In this talk we’ll showcase how we implemented trace-driven testing with Tracetest and OpenTelemetry. This improved our feedback cycle by 50%, uncovered issues that traditional tests missed and decreased test creation time by 90%! Attendees will also learn how to apply this new approach to various use-cases, such as API tests, browser end-to-end testing and even testing in production. Trace-driven testing works by leveraging the work already invested in instrumenting our systems via distributed tracing. Sounds fun? Join me to learn how we did it at monday.com!

Speakers

David Gohberg

Senior Software Engineer, monday.com

David Gohberg is a Senior Software Engineer at monday.com where he works on distributed trace testing while building the best CRM on the planet. Before that, he worked at Dropbox where he improved tracing capabilities in high scale workloads. He has worked across the stack, from embedded... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Interesting Use Cases for Observability

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

3:55pm MST

Distributed Tracing: All the Warning Signs Were Out There!!! - Vijay Samuel, eBay

Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Distributed tracing is hard! That is a statement that most folks would agree too. At large organizations like eBay where there are 1000s of microservices and call chains that have 100s or even 1000s of spans, the complexity to adopt tracing is fairly high. Over the course of the last couple of years, we have traveled far in getting to a state where most applications are instrumented for tracing. However, the journey has numerous hurdles that we have had to cross. This talk discusses, a solid approach we took with the help of Open Telemetry, how it jump started our adoption but at the same time, how we had to do more to get much closer to the finish line.

Key points that we would discuss include:

Our strategy to deliver instrumentation to all applications
Challenges in context propagation
Doing more than what open telemetry alone provides
Experiences required to make tracing useful
Focus for the future

Speakers

Vijay Samuel

Principal MTS, Architect, eBay

Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Observability Success Stories and Misfortunes

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

4:30pm MST

Enabling Intelligent Observability Volume Management - Priyanka Naik, IBM & Vaishnavi Hire, Red Hat

Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Ensuring observability is critical, especially as operations expand into edge cloud environments. Effective observability data volume management is crucial to benefit from observability while controlling costs (storage, network, processing). Naive data reduction (e.g.,changing all metrics freq from 30s to 5min, sampling traces) can harm SLAs. With Observability Volume Manager(OVM), IBM and RedHat have co-developed an open-source intelligent framework with dynamic, fine-grained control of observability data volume. It works across modalities and integrates with open-source tools like Prometheus and OTel. OVM performs dynamic transformations at edge like filtering/aggregating data to reduce volume as well as adjust metric frequency/log levels for risk based zoom in/out and issue triaging. OVM identifies highly correlated/computed metrics and performs intelligent pruning and given an observability budget, identifies the subset of metrics and frequencies to minimize downstream task impact.

Speakers

Vaishnavi Hire

Sr. Software Engineer, Red Hat OpenShift AI, Red Hat, Inc

Hi, I am a Senior Software engineer at Red Hat, contributing to OpenShift AI. My contributions include designing and developing the OpenShift AI Platform integrations. Additionally, I am also a co-maintainer of the open source project Open Data Hub.

Priyanka Naik

Research Scientist, IBM

Priyanka Naik is a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, India with experience in networked system. She is working on multi-cloud aspects around edge observability. She is a speaker at multiple tutorials and a co-author to a cloud networking book.

Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Managing the Ever-increasing Volume of Observability Data

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Is OpenTelemetry Too Complicated to Get Started? - Pranay Prateek, SigNoz

Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

In this talk I will highlight some of the key issues end users face getting started with OpenTelemetry, and some possible ways to solve for this. Some common questions we see are: 1. What is the right way to deploy otel collectors for my scale? 2. I have instrumented my applications but I don't see my telemetry data data ( esp. around tracing) 3. Questions around manual instrumentation or any use cases which are not covered by auto instrumentation are tough to get help and guidance on This is more of an introspective talk on what we can do better as a community and derives from our experience of helping 1000s of users get started with OpenTelemetry.

Speakers

Pranay Prateek

Co-founder, SigNoz

Pranay is one of the maintainers at SigNoz, an open source APM. He loves working on open source and observability, and has deep interest in philosophy esp. around Existentialism He is one of the organisers of OpenTelemetry APAC discussion group meetings & has been speaker in events... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Project specific-Observability+Prometheus+OpenMetrics+OpenTelemetry+Jaeger+Thanos+Fluentd+Cortex+etc

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Observability Migration Worst Case Scenarios - Paige Cruz, Chronosphere

Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Do you remember the first observability migration you shepherded? I do…and not because it went smoothly. Now that I have some distance from this disaster I can share the mistakes I made from hazy requirements to evaluate platforms to issues interpreting vendor pricing plans and underestimating the importance of developer enablement. The challenges were endless and while the migration did eventually finish I would do almost everything differently if I could go back in time. Let my mistakes guide you away from a messy migration by learning what NOT to do when migrating observability platforms.

Speakers

Paige Cruz

Principal Developer Advocate, Chronosphere

Paige Cruz is a Principal Developer Advocate at Chronosphere passionate about cultivating sustainable on-call practices and bringing folks their aha moment with observability. She started as a software engineer at New Relic before switching to Site Reliability Engineering holding... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day, Observability Success Stories and Misfortunes

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day

5:25pm MST

Observability Day | Closing Remarks

Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Observability Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Observability Day