Open Observability Day North America 2022
2022-10-24
Detroit, United States
who it's for
observability engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, kubernetes operators, telemetry engineers, backend engineers, security engineers
topics
OpenTelemetry Collector scaling; Fluent Bit pipeline management; Prometheus remote_write exporter; eBPF uprobes for gRPC; OpAMP agent lifecycle management; tail-based sampling for traces; Wasm tracing with OpenTelemetry; Chaos Mesh DNS failure testing; Discovery Engine pod-label policies; OpenTelemetry metrics Prometheus compatibility
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Distributed Tracing - The Struggle is Real | Ian Smith | 11m |
Distributed tracing often fails to deliver because adoption falls off after day one, leaving a few experts to wrangle complex tools like Jaeger while most… | ||
| Keynote: Observability Simplified | Eduardo Silva | 07m |
Claims that the open source Fluent Bit lineage now powers a product, Calyptia Core, which unifies logs, metrics and traces and cuts “time to observe” by… | ||
| Building Observability Pipeline with Fluent-Bit | Chao Xu | 28m |
LinkedIn replaces siloed logging and tracing stacks with a unified pipeline that uses OpenTelemetry for multi‑language instrumentation, Kafka as the central… | ||
| Confidence with Chaos for Your Kubernetes Observability | Michael Friedrich | 36m |
Demo injects DNS failures with Chaos Mesh (NXDOMAIN) against a Kubernetes app, produces a steady memory leak, and trips a Prometheus alert and an SLO violation… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Achieving Unified Observability for Cloud and Edge with FluentBit | Benjamin Huo | 12m |
Fluent Operator 1.0/1.5 configures and deploys FluentBit as a single agent on cloud and constrained edge nodes, collecting logs and metrics (node, container… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Making Sense of Observability with Auto-Discovered Security Policies | Ankur Kothiwal | 06m |
An open-source Kubernetes plugin called Discovery Engine automatically generates runtime network and system policies by consuming CNI visibility across… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Managing OpenTelemetry Through the OpAMP Protocol | Mike Kelly | 12m |
Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) defines a binary protobuf-over-websocket+protobuf payloads (also HTTP) protocol for remote lifecycle management of… | ||
| Lightning Talk: OTel Me How to Build a Data Pipeline for Observability | Daniel Kim, Reese Lee | 11m |
Observability is framed as a data problem and the recommended approach builds a centralized pipeline using the OpenTelemetry Collector with receivers for… | ||
| Lightning Talk: What Can eBPF Actually do for Modern-day Observability? | Ori Shussman | 10m |
Claim: eBPF plus user‑mode probes (uprobes) can deliver full observability of stateful, compressed or encrypted protocols like gRPC by reading library memory… | ||
| Adopting Open Telemetry Collector @ eBay - Swapping Engines Mid Flight | Vijay Samuel | 25m |
eBay describes replacing Metricbeat with OpenTelemetry Collector across Kubernetes, migrating 1.25 million endpoints that produce ~32 million samples/sec and… | ||
| Leveraging OpenTelemetry for Your Prometheus Pipeline | Goutham Veeramachaneni | 24m |
OpenTelemetry Metrics is GA and promises Prometheus compatibility; the Collector can ingest via the Prometheus receiver (wraps full Prom config), the simple… | ||
| The Amazing Trace: Enhancing Distributed WebAssembly With OTEL- Brooks Townsend | Brooks Townsend | 32m |
WasmbCloud adds OpenTelemetry tracing across the runtime, capability providers, and the WebAssembly boundary by instrumenting the host and using an Erlang shim… | ||
| Opening the Door to Observability | Libby Meren | 27m |
Argues that observability drives measurable business outcomes: marketing gains customer signals, leadership gets ROI-ready data, and security shifts from… | ||
| “Are These Things Talking to Each Other?” - Observing Kubernetes Networking... | Anna Kapuścińska | 29m |
Kubernetes networking is observable end-to-end using Cilium’s eBPF datapath, Hubble flows and Prometheus/Grafana metrics. The demo reproduces a real outage… | ||
| Why Large-Scale Observability Needs Graph | Richard Benwell | 26m |
Argument: observability lacks the system model needed to infer internal state, so connect metrics/logs/traces to an explicit graph model. Production graph tech… | ||
| Opening Remarks + Project Updates | Bartek Plotka | 25m |
Opening remarks set logistics (code of conduct, masks, Slack channel for virtual attendees) and a schedule, then project updates hit concrete changes: Fluent… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Anurag Gupta | 06m |
First Open Observability Day wraps with attendance and hands‑on metrics: organizers note heavy session submissions, thank clyptia and chronosphere plus… | ||
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