Tom Wilkie
where else to find them
website:https://grafana.com
github:tomwilkie
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linkedin:tomwilkie
speakerdeck:tomwilkie
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America4 editions2016–2020
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe3 editions2018–2021
all 9 in the filters
on a stage with
- Bryan Boreham2×
- Frederic Branczykonce
- Ken Hainesonce
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who talks about the same things
- Goutham Veeramachaneni20 talks
- Bartłomiej Płotka25 talks
- Julius Volz12 talks
- Saswata Mukherjee5 talks
- Matvey Arye4 talks
- Charlie Le3 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | ObservabilityCON on the Road Tokyo 2025 | 2025-02-25 |
Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana Labs, presents new features in the Grafana LGTM Stack and Grafana Cloud and discusses recent AI/ML advances. The talk focuses on how… | ||
| Opening Keynote (Live) | ObservabilityCON 2023 | 2023-11-14 |
Live keynote announces concrete product moves: Loki 3.0 with Bloom filters speeds “needle in a haystack” queries up to 1,000x (minutes to seconds), Adaptive… | ||
| Better Scalability & More Isolation? The Cortex “Shuffle Sharding” Story | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 | 2021-05-04 |
Cortex shards tenant traffic into deterministic, randomly chosen subclusters using a deterministic hash of tenant ID and then applies the usual quorum… | ||
| The Future is Bright, the Future is Prometheus Remote Write | PromCon Online 2021 | 2021-05-03 |
Prometheus remote_write is a push protocol implemented by ~30 implementations and now accepted by Prometheus itself; a test harness is built that scrapes… | ||
| Intro to Scaling Prometheus with Cortex | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual | 2020-11-17 |
Cortex provides a horizontally scalable, highly available Prometheus-compatible TSDB that accepts Prometheus remote_write traffic, shards via a distributed… | ||
| Blazin’ Fast PromQL | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 | 2019-11-18 |
Prometheus’ single-threaded PromQL engine limits large queries, so Cortex builds a query front-end that does step alignment, per-day partial queries and result… | ||
| Intro: Cortex | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 | 2019-05-20 |
Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant long‑term storage for Prometheus metrics, ingesting via the remote_write API and… | ||
| Deep Dive: Cortex | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 | 2019-05-20 |
Cortex is a Prometheus-compatible, multi-tenant TSDB that stores samples in compressed “chunks” (roughly six-hour blobs a few KB each) and writes them to… | ||
| Grafana Loki: Like Prometheus, But for logs. | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 | 2019-05-20 |
Loki claims a cheaper, easier log store by indexing labels not full-text index and linking logs to Prometheus metadata, ingesting with the promtail agent and… | ||
| Keynote: ...What Does the Future Hold for Observability? | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 | 2019-05-20 |
Three concrete predictions: (1) tighter correlation between metrics, logs and traces with workflows that jump from a Prometheus latency graph to the relevant… | ||
| Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus | DevFest Ukraine 2018 | 2018-10-12 |
Prometheus-on-Kubernetes setup is described end-to-end: use kube-state-metrics, node-exporter and cAdvisor plus Grafana for dashboards, or deploy via… | ||
| Using Jsonnet to Package Together Dashboards, Alerts and Exporters | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 | 2018-05-02 |
Packages dashboards, alerts and exporters as reusable Jsonnet Monitoring Mixins that render into Prometheus alerting rules, Grafana JSON and YAML. Uses Jsonnet… | ||
| The RED Method: How To Instrument Your Services [B] | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 | 2017-12-06 |
Defines RED = requests, errors, duration as the three service metrics to record, uses a single Prometheus histogram with labels (method, route pattern, status)… | ||
| gRPC & Kubernetes | GDG DevFest Ukraine 2017 | 2017-10-13 |
Built a hosted Prometheus monitoring service that uses HTTP/2 with protobuf gRPC for all intra-server RPCs on Kubernetes; code generation produces trivial Go… | ||
| Loki: An OpenSource Zipkin / Prometheus Mashup, Written in Go | CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 | 2017-03-29 |
A Zipkin-compatible tracer written in Go that reused Prometheus service discovery to pull-based scraping of in-process ring buffers, Loki prototypes a pull… | ||
| Behind the Iron Curtain: Getting Metrics From the Browser into Prometheus | CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 | 2017-03-29 |
Project sends user-facing metrics and JS errors into Prometheus by embedding a small JavaScript library that emits the Prometheus exposition format, wraps… | ||
| Weave Cortex: Horizontally Scalable, Multitenant Prometheus as a Service | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 | 2016-11-08 |
Weave Cortex implements a multitenant Prometheus as a service that splits Prometheus into retrieval, distributor and ingester microservices, stores 1KB… | ||
| Monitoring Microservices | GOTO Stockholm 2016 | 2016-05-09 |
Argues monitoring must shift primary key from host to service and adopts RED: rate error duration as the three service metrics, shows dashboards built with… | ||
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