KubeCon Europe 2024
  • November 12-15, 2024
  • Salt Palace Convention Center
  • 90 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Grafana is a proud silver sponsor of this year’s KubeCon North America event, including Observability Day 2024.

Drop by the booth R7 at KubeCon’s sponsor solutions showcase any time to meet the team and grab some swag

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And be sure to catch these great sessions presented by Grafanistas at KubeCon and the co-located events:

Tuesday, November 12 10:40am - 11:05am MST Co-located event: Observability Day
But Wait! There's...Still More? - Observability Data Volumes and Strategies for Managing Them

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.

  • Éamon Ryan

    Grafana Labs
Tuesday, November 12 4:30pm - 4:55pm MST Co-located event: Cilium + eBPF Day
So You Want to Write Memory with eBPF?

A lot of eBPF programs fall into the category of observing the Linux system, i.e the kernel, system libraries or user-space programs. For the purpose of observing the system, we mostly rely on reading memory with eBPF, either kernel or user-space memory. However, sometimes various eBPF use cases require writing memory, for example propagating W3C context for various application protocols. This talk focuses on our journey to implement W3C trace context propagation with eBPF at various levels of the protocol stack. We explore what memory write eBPF APIs are available to us today, along with their implications to system security, stability, required permissions and implementation difficulty. We’ll present two working solutions with their pros and cons, a lot of dead ends, as well as explore what a new approach might look like by leveraging the “BPF arena” feature in kernel 6.9.

  • Nikola Grcevski

    Grafana Labs

  • Mike Dame

    Google
Wednesday, November 13 11:15 - 11:50 MST
Unlocking Cost Savings & New Possibilities: Your Guide to Prometheus Remote Write 2.0

Prometheus Remote Write is the protocol used to send Prometheus metrics from Prometheus or any other metric source to compatible remote storage endpoints such as Thanos and Cortex. Remote Write is generally used for metric long term storage, centralization, and cloud services. It also enables users to run Prometheus in an agent mode, reducing local storage requirements. Welcome to Remote Write 2.0! In this talk, Bartek and Callum, Prometheus maintainers and RW2.0 spec. co-authors, will introduce you to the next iteration of the popular protocol which adds more functionality while cutting your egress costs up to 60%, and keeps the previous versions easy-to-implement stateless design! The audience will learn what's changed in the second version of Remote Write, what it unlocks, and how easy it is to update or adopt. Finally, the speakers will share the latest benchmarks and differences with the common alternatives.

  • Callum Styan

    Grafana Labs

  • Bartłomiej Płotka

    Google
Wednesday, November 13 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
OpenTelemetry Project Update

This is the official OpenTelemetry session at Kubecon. OpenTelemetry started with distributed traces and metrics, but the project's vision has always been to provide whatever signals are needed from infrastructure, services, and more. This session will focus on what's coming next, including new signals and sources. Join to learn about OpenTelemetry's new logging functionality, including its two logging paths, the benefits of each, and real-world production examples. We'll show the power of the next wave of OpenTelemetry enhancements, including profiling and the insights that this unlocks in combination with distributed traces, and how we're extending your observability to client applications. We'll wrap up with a Q&A of 10+ project maintainers, who can speak to these topics and more.

  • Juraci Paixão Kröhling

    Grafana Labs

  • Alolita Sharma

    Apple

  • Ted Young

    ServiceNow

  • Daniel Gomez Blanco

    Skyscanner

  • Daniel Dyla

    Dynatrace
Wednesday, November 13 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Watching the Watchers: How We Do Continuous Reliability at Grafana Labs

Nothing is foolproof. Everything fails eventually. Observability tools help predict and lessen the impact of those failures, as the watchers of your software systems. But who watches the watchers? At Grafana Labs, we're not immune to production incidents. Just like any company, we still sometimes move too quickly. We run complex, microservices-based systems ourselves, so we have to eat our own dogfood on a daily basis. In this talk, I reveal: - how we solved a years-long mystery that cost us $100,000+ - how we got our internal Mimir clusters to reliably hold 1.3 billion time series for metrics - what we've had to do to scale our Loki clusters to handle 324 TB of logs a day - what our Grafana dashboards to monitor Grafana Cloud look like Sometimes, it's easier to learn from failures in observability than from successes. This talk is a confession of some of our worst sins as well as a realistic look under the hood at how we're improving the continuous reliability of our stack.

  • Nicole van der Hoeven

    Grafana Labs
Thursday, November 14 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Celebrating Prometheus 3.0: A Deep Dive with the Maintainers

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring system and a CNCF Graduate project. It benefits from a rich ecosystem, including Alertmanager, efficient client libraries for many languages, the Prometheus Operator to install on Kubernetes, and numerous Exporters to provide the raw data. This year, Prometheus releases the 3.0 version, which includes new features, a refreshed UI/UX, and plenty of new things that build on what has worked well for years. Join two Prometheus maintainers, Josh and Kemal, to celebrate the 3.0 version and learn what it enables for new and existing users, how to upgrade, and how to get the most out of the latest version! Prepare tons of questions; we will have a lot of interactive time for questions; we want to hear community feedback!

  • Josh Abreu

    Grafana Labs

  • Kemal Akkoyun

    fal.ai