Open Source Monitoring Conference 2024
2024-11-19..2024-11-21
Nuremberg, Germany
[Open Source Monitoring Conference 2023, Open Source Monitoring Conference 2024, Open Source Monitoring Conference 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Cypress, Playwright or Selenium: choosing the right testing tool | Soumaya Erradi | 51m |
Compares Selenium, Cypress and Playwright by running the same simple calculator end‑to‑end tests: Selenium uses WebDriver, supports many languages and browsers… | ||
| O11y@DATEV – 10% luck, 50% skill and 40% concentrated power of will | Gunter Geib | 47m |
DATEV builds a full‑stack observability platform over ~2.5 years using OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Grafana Cloud as the user-facing back end, giving… | ||
| Paranoid Observability –Success Stories and Misfortunes observing an observability stack | Erik Sommer | 29m |
Runs Prometheus per cluster, Grafana per cluster, centralized Grafana + Mimir and a global Alertmanager; Loki and Tempo feed alerts too. Builds a meta instance… | ||
| SecureAI: A Scalable, Secure, and Compliant AI Solution | Leanne Lacey Byrne, Lucas Jeanniot | 30m |
SecureAI is an on‑prem GenAI stack that ingests IMAP, files and buckets, pipelines data with Apache NiFi, stores vector embeddings in OpenSearch + vector… | ||
| Bow for me for I am Coroot | Kris Buytaert | 30m |
Coroot claims to be an eBPF-based exporter and a plausible competitor to Datadog/NewRelic, Apache‑2.0 licensed, running on bare metal, Kubernetes or Nomad. It… | ||
| Zabbix meets AI–The power of opensource monitoring | Wolfgang Alper | 30m |
Shows a concrete integration: a trained autoencoder LSTM ingests multivariate time‑series pulled via the Zabbix API, learns normal cross‑metric and temporal… | ||
| Ignite: Reimagining Technical Training with Educates | Daniel Bodky | 06m |
An open-source training platform called educates runs on Kubernetes and provides per-attendee namespaces, a web Django portal, a built-in VS Code editor and… | ||
| Enhancing Observability and Security in Microservices and Kubernetes: | Davide Selletri | 19m |
Explains using Calico (open source/Enterprise/Cloud) with Prometheus + Grafana to monitor Kubernetes networking by tracking Typha and Felix metrics, provides… | ||
| Icinga as aggregation tool | Toshaan Bharvani | 24m |
Uses Icinga2 as a front layer that ingests events via API connectors from Zabbix, SCOM/Broadcom, Tivoli/CA and others, stores state in Redis, Icinga DB and… | ||
| Is Building an Observability Platform with Open Source the Right Choice? | Vanessa Martini | 30m |
Argues open source works if you accept integration and ops work: claims observability can eat ~30% of infrastructure cost, so using Prometheus, Thanos, Loki… | ||
| Synergy in monitoring: Naemon meets Prometheus | Matthias Gallinger | 35m |
Combines the traditional Naemon monitoring platform with Prometheus to create a hybrid monitoring architecture. Describes the architecture, implementation… | ||
| The Subtle Art of Lying with Statistics | Dave McAllister | 32m |
Shows concrete ways numbers mislead: arithmetic vs harmonic mean gives 1.56 versus 0.53 for the same dataset; geometric mean 1.01 and mode 1. Demonstrates… | ||
| Ignite: Monitoring meets Smart Home – Monitoring is not just a business discipline | Jens Michelsons | 06m |
Jens Michelsons demonstrates using open-source monitoring and smart‑home platforms together at home, specifically integrating Home Assistant metrics with a… | ||
| Ignite: Key Factors for Successful 24×7 On-Call Duty | Ronald Czachara | 06m |
A cautionary on-call case study shows weekly planning in Excel and physical phones lead to noisy ringtones, missed responsibility and sleepless engineers; a… | ||
| The story of firefighting: learnings from the incident management | Daniil Doronkin | 25m |
Smartwatch stress spikes (heart rate 177 vs normal ~70–80) match incident timelines, so incident work needs tooling and choreography: define three roles —… | ||
| IcingaWeb2 Modules 2.0 – OpenID Connect – Enrollment – Selenium | Nicolas Schneider | 39m |
Three new IcingaWeb2 modules extend auth, onboarding and testing: an OpenID Connect module that uses openid-connect-php via Composer, creates a user/group… | ||
| Palindrome.js: 3D Monitoring for Distributed Systems | Jonathan Rivalan | 49m |
A JavaScript library called Palindrome.js renders layered 3D dashboards that group metrics into hierarchical layers and drill down from 100+ machines to… | ||
| Customer Centric Monitoring | Andreas Lehr | 32m |
Focuses on concrete checks: TLS certificates (example: Postmark has an invalid TLS for 9 hours incident), synthetic browser flows using Playwright browser… | ||
| Umbrella monitoring with Open Source | Jens Michelsons | 30m |
Shows how to build an umbrella monitoring system that covers multiple monitoring tools and infrastructures, using Icinga2 and openITCOCKPIT as a concrete… | ||
| Open source observability for private cloud: mission impossible or not? | Virginia Diana Todea | 25m |
Company runs hybrid private/public clouds (Swisscom, OVH) with a five‑person SRE team and legacy apps, using Prometheus + Grafana for metrics, Filebeat →… | ||
| A Guide to Responsible Data Collection In Open Source | Alex Biehl | 27m |
Argues that open-source usage analytics are practical if done with expectation fit and clear governance, not banned; cites Scarf and its scarf JS post-install… | ||
| Ignite: Monitoring and maintaining self-signed certificates is dangerous | Mattias Schlenker | 06m |
Argues self-signed certificates are unreliable for monitoring and shows a concrete internal CA in five minutes workflow: generate a long‑lived root key… | ||
| Observability is Too Expensive! | Andre Scott | 22m |
Claims that observability costs hit 10–30% of ops budgets and that 99% of indexed observability data is never searched and 30% of data is never used at all… | ||
| Netdata: Open Source, Distributed Observability Pipeline – Journey and Challenge | Costa Tsaousis | 44m |
Netdata is an open‑source observability pipeline that keeps full‑resolution data at the edge with edge-first agents and optional parent clusters plus a… | ||
| Observe your GitHub repos efficiently | Syed Usman Ahmad | 29m |
Sets up Grafana with the GitHub Data Source plugin, uses a personal API token to pull issues, PRs, commits and Actions metadata from single or 20+… | ||
| Ignite: Wild Correlations and more | Dave McAllister | 06m |
Five minutes of slide-after-slide showing absurd but statistically strong pairings, with an explanation of R and R² and how data dredging and confounders… | ||
| Building a better check_http | Mattias Schlenker | 30m |
A complete reimplementation of check_http called check_httpv2 is written as a Rust binary that keeps Nagios/monitoring-plugins exit codes and runs… | ||
| Scaling: from 0 to 25 million users | Josip Stuhli | 47m |
A concrete scaling path: 28M monthly users, >400B requests/month and a 1.6M req/s peak drive specific moves — introduce Varnish request coalescing, shard… | ||
| Multi-Cluster Observability: What you need to survive with a fleet | Daniel Mohr | 25m |
Overview of a working multicluster stack using Prometheus, Thanos and Observatorium that centralizes metrics for telemetry, billing and fleet management. Uses… | ||
| Current State of Icinga | Bernd Erk | 01h 08m |
Icinga reports a critical security fix (released Nov 12, detailed Nov 26) that affects versions back to 2.4 and urges immediate updates; repository GPG keys… | ||
| Fluent Bit, the engine to power Chat Ops | Patrick Stephens | 30m |
Fluent Bit receives an alert via HTTP input, runs a Lua filter to execute node-side fixes and posts results through a Slack output; a Java webhook watches… | ||
| Telegraf – A data collection agent | Sven Rebhan | 25m |
Telegraf is a plugin-based agent that collects, transforms and ships metrics, logs and traces with 260 input plugins (system, network, OPC UA/Modbus, IoT… | ||
| Ignite: A day in the life of an OSS maintainer | Patrick Stephens | 06m |
Fluent Bit is a CNCF-graduated log forwarder turned full observability agent used by major public clouds; maintainers report integration tests exhausting GCP… | ||
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