Conf42 Observability 2023
who it's for
observability engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, backend developers, security engineers, engineering managers
topics
OpenTelemetry transforms and mutators; OpenTelemetry Collector log-to-trace; API Gateway observability plugins; Falco with eBPF probes; SLOs and error budget playbooks; AWS Lambda instrumentation and X-Ray; event-driven tracing with span links; observability-driven development workflows; CloudWatch dashboard automation for serverless; SQL EXPLAIN ANALYZE debugging; Apache APISIX as observability hub; generative models for observability (GPT-3.5)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Premiere | Alberto Gastaldello, Andrea Caretta, Aswin Kumar, Bobur Umurzokov, Eyal Trabelsi, Gareth Emslie, Henrik Rexed, Thomas Labarussias, Fred Moyer, Diren Akkoc, Ritvi Mishra, Pawel Piwosz, Alejandro Mercado, Adam Furmanek, Adnan Rahic, Sameer Paradkar, Shai Almog | 11m |
Quick lineup: a hands-on demo of OpenTelemetry transforms showing how to normalize and mutate trace/span payloads for target backends; API Gateway plugins that… | ||
| Hacking OpenTelemetry | Alberto Gastaldello, Andrea Caretta | 16m |
Shows a practical hack: a modified OpenTelemetry Collector that parses syslog JSON for trace_id/span_id and builds spans so uninstrumented apps that only emit… | ||
| Setting up Intelligent Observability | Aswin Kumar | 09m |
Proposes a business architecture with three levels — dev/QA/prod, an events layer (logs, traces, network, security, UX) and a business/process layer tying… | ||
| Observe your API with API Gateway Plugins | Bobur Umurzokov | 35m |
Demonstrates using Apache APISIX as the observability hub by wiring real plugins to an ASP.NET Core backend running in Docker Compose: HTTP logger sends… | ||
| Apparently, you can "debug" your SQL queries | Eyal Trabelsi | 18m |
Claims that SQL can be debugged like application code by reading execution plans and comparing EXPLAIN ANALYZE output (JSON/XML) to find mismatches such as a… | ||
| Exploring ChatGPT for Improved Observability | Gareth Emslie | 23m |
Modern observability must handle hyperscaler fragility: 2022 Google maintenance causes 3h22m latency, March Traffic Director outage 2h35m, Azure East US2 ~12h… | ||
| The Art of Event Driven Observability with OpenTelemetry | Henrik Rexed | 26m |
Shows concrete instrumented code using the OpenTelemetry SDK with batch span processor, exporter and explicit sampling (trace-id ratios like 20%) to publish… | ||
| Use Falco and eBPF to protect your applications | Thomas Labarussias | 25m |
Demo shows Falco + eBPF probe capturing syscalls and immediately alerting on executed shells, curl, API access and file overwrites in a Kubernetes pod… | ||
| Techniques for SLOs and Error Budgets at Scale | Fred Moyer | 30m |
Rolled SLOs across a 1,000+ engineer org by prescribing concrete SLIs (good vs bad requests), calibrating thresholds until 99.95% (3.5 nines) is achieved, and… | ||
| Observability and SLIC Watch | Diren Akkoc | 14m |
Automates CloudWatch dashboard and alarm creation for serverless stacks by parsing the CloudFormation JSON produced by Serverless Framework or AWS SAM and… | ||
| Use the Observability, Luke! | Pawel Piwosz | 30m |
Walks through concrete steps to instrument AWS Lambda: enable X‑Ray, Lambda Insights and API Gateway custom logs with a Trace ID; use AWS Lambda Powertools to… | ||
| Observability: the Key to Unlocking GitOps | Alejandro Mercado | 29m |
Argues that observability is a prerequisite for GitOps and shows a live Argo CD demo reconciling a declared manifest with the cluster control plane, creating a… | ||
| Missing chapter in your CI playbook: database guardrails | Adam Furmanek | 48m |
Demonstrates catching database failures inside CI by extracting execution plans and tracing SQL with OpenTelemetry spans, surfacing issues that unit tests… | ||
| What is observability-driven development? | Adnan Rahic | 24m |
Claims a practical workflow that replaces heavy mocking by asserting on OpenTelemetry spans using Trace test to trigger HTTP/gRPC, pull traces from… | ||
| Beyond Monitoring: The Rise of Observability Platform | Sameer Paradkar | 33m |
Defines an observability platform as a data pipeline: ingest logs metrics traces via OpenTelemetry, normalize and aggregate, run ML for anomaly detection and… | ||
| Developer Observability - the Forth Pillar | Shai Almog | 23m |
Argues developer observability is a fourth pillar and demonstrates the ability to inject logs, metrics, snapshots into running production from an IDE… | ||
| Observability 101 using Generative art and Rising Wave | Ritvi Mishra | 29m |
Demonstrates using generative art as a live probe and Streaming database Rising Wave to ingest click events from a React front end, create materialized views… | ||
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