That's a wrap on ObservabilityCON on the Road Berlin

Agenda

1. Opening keynote

   Join Richard ‘RichiH’ Hartmann from the Grafana Labs Office of the CTO for the kickoff of ObservabilityCON on the Road Berlin. Learn about the latest features and AI/ML developments in the Grafana LGTM Stack and Grafana Cloud that make it easier and faster for you to identify and resolve issues and get value from your observability practice.

   • Richard "RichiH" Hartmann, Director, Community, Grafana Labs

2. Instrumentation and ingestion in an instant: Demo of Grafana Alloy, Grafana Beyla, and OpenTelemetry

   Grafana Alloy, our open source telemetry collector, uniquely provides native pipelines for both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus formats. With Alloy’s integration with Grafana Beyla for eBPF-based application auto-instrumentation, you can automatically capture metrics and traces of running services and connect them to your existing telemetry pipelines. Alloy also has an experimental feature for translating Datadog metric formats into native OTLP format. In this session, you’ll see a live demo of how, with a single deployment, you can instantly get your data into Grafana Cloud for unified application and infrastructure observability.

   • Marc Tuduri, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
   • Jorge Creixell, Principal Engineer, Grafana Labs
   • Tom Braack, Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

3. Troubleshoot faster with unified application and infrastructure observability in Grafana Cloud

   At ObservabilityCON 2023, we announced the acquisition of Asserts, which provides an intelligence layer to telemetry data to help you understand the behavior of your applications and services. In this session, you’ll see a live demo of how these contextual alerts have been integrated into Grafana Cloud’s workflows for application, Kubernetes, and infrastructure observability – and more – to speed up root cause analysis.

   • Goutham Veeramachaneni, Product Manager, Grafana Labs
   • Cedric Ziel, Senior Product Manager, Grafana Labs

4. A recipe for observability: Cookidoo’s transition to Grafana Cloud

   Engineers at Cookidoo, a cooking app that helps customers around the world whip up tasty meals, needed a new recipe for observability, and they found it with Grafana Cloud. Join Senior Site Reliability Engineer Tim Schrumpf and Principal Software Engineer Dennis Rippinger from Vorwerk Gruppe (Cookidoo’s parent company) as they share the motivations behind the shift, the challenges faced, and the innovative solutions that facilitated a smooth transition from Instana to Grafana Cloud. You’ll also hear how things are going, one year after the migration: the benefits realized for the organization and what’s still to come.

   • Tim Schrumpf, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Vorwerk Gruppe
   • Dennis Rippinger, Principal Software Engineer, Vorwerk Gruppe

5. AI/ML in Grafana Cloud: Saving toil, time, and money

   Under the hood of features like Sift, Asserts, and Adaptive Metrics, AI/ML is helping organizations reduce toil, get faster insights, optimize observability costs – and level up the productivity of their engineers. In this session, you’ll see demos of these Grafana Cloud features and hear real-world examples of the value achieved with them. Plus find out what’s next for the Adaptive Telemetry cost management suite: Adaptive Logs and beyond.

   • Semir Ajruli, Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs
   • Wided Agrebi, Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs

6. A user's guide to Grafana Cloud's end-to-end IRM solution

   Grafana Cloud’s Incident Response and Management solution provides workflows that span creating alerts and SLOs, managing on-call and incident response, and learning from postmortems – all within the context of your observability stack. In this session, you’ll learn best practices for making the most of this IRM solution, including leveraging the historical incident data that’s accessible within Grafana Cloud.

   • Timo Gerhard, Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs

7. Best practices for faster insights from your metrics, logs, traces, and profiles

   Learn about the latest features and functionality in Grafana Labs’ horizontally scalable, highly performant open source telemetry backends (Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, Grafana Tempo for traces, and Grafana Pyroscope for profiles). In this session, you’ll learn best practices for correlating your different telemetry data in Grafana to simplify debugging, speed up incident resolution, and understand resource usage and latency down to the code level. You’ll also see a demo of the new Explore features that remove the barrier of learning query languages like PromQL and LogQL.

   • Sven Großmann, Senior Software Engineer II, Grafana Labs
   • Phillipp Eckermann, Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs

8. How to use synthetics, load testing, and real user monitoring to understand your end users' experience

   Synthetic monitoring, which enables you to simulate and analyze user journeys, is a common starting point for understanding and improving your end users’ digital experience. In this session, you’ll find out about the latest developments in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, powered by Grafana k6, that help you simulate even the most complex transactions and user journeys. You’ll also learn how synthetics can be used in conjunction with load testing and real user monitoring in Grafana Cloud for a more holistic approach to user-centered observability.

   • Chris Bedwell, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

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