KubeCon Europe 2024
  • March 19-22, 2024
  • Paris Expo Porte De Versailles
  • 1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 75015 Paris, France

Grafana is a proud silver sponsor of this year’s KubeCon Europe event, including Observability Day 2024.

Drop by booth L6 at KubeCon’s sponsor solutions showcase any time to meet the team and grab some swag, or contact us to set up a meeting. We hope to see you there!

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And be sure to catch these great sessions presented by Grafanistas at KubeCon:

Tuesday, March 19 15:50 - 16:15 CET
Curveballs: Learnings from Instrumenting Managed Runtime Applications with eBPF

A lot of eBPF existing documentation focuses on instrumenting the Linux Kernel, or native applications which have standard ELF symbol tables and do their own memory management. But, what about using eBPF to instrument applications that compile to native code, but are managed by a runtime of some kind? For example, can we use eBPF to instrument applications written in Go or Java? This talk focuses on discussing approaches to instrumenting applications which have non-standard symbol tables, don’t have static symbol tables, can dynamically recompile parts of their code, have reference moving memory managers (GCs), and can grow/shrink the stack between ‘uprobe’ and ‘uretprobe’. We’ll go through various learnings and failures we had while working on application instrumentation with eBPF, trying to instrument natively compiled applications running with managed runtimes.

  • Nikola Grcevski

    Grafana Labs

  • Mario Macías

    Grafana Labs
Tuesday, March 19 17:35 - 17:40 CET
Lightning Talk: Debunking Myths About Environmental Sustainability in the Cloud, Building a Greener CNCF Landscape

Environmental sustainability is an increasingly important topic in general and in the cloud native and open source realm as well. However, with the steadily growing attention to the topic, misconceptions and doubts appear regarding the actual impact of proposed actions that are meant to promote environmental sustainability in the cloud. We would like to put our myth-busting hats on to address and debunk some of these misconceptions. We will provide an objective, evidence-based understanding of the real implications some actions may have on environmental sustainability in the cloud-native context.

  • Niki Manoledaki

    Grafana Labs

  • Kristina Devochko

    Independent
Wednesday, March 20 16:30 - 17:05 CET
Disintegrated Telemetry: The Pains of Monitoring Asynchronous Workflows

Different components involved in asynchronous workflows typically communicate via messages or events. Instrumenting and observing such workflows often results in disintegrated telemetry pieces (metrics and traces), from which it is hard to deduce the lifetime and impact of a message or event. Distributed Tracing offers two different solution approaches to this problem: strong correlation via parent/child relationships, and weak correlation via links. I show how each solution approach is broken in its own way, and provide insights that help you to choose the least broken solution for your scenario. Finally, to show some light at the end of the tunnel, I give an overview of standardization efforts in this space, including W3C context propagation drafts for messaging protocols, and the messaging semantic conventions created by the OpenTelemetry messaging workgroup, which I'm leading.

  • Johannes Tax

    Grafana Labs
Thursday, March 21 17:25 - 18:00 CET
Rebuilding Your Cloud Native Community: Lessons Learned from Stardew Valley

In the wake of COVID-19, many cloud native communities are struggling to regain their former footing. This talk draws inspiration from Stardew Valley to provide actionable strategies for reviving and revitalizing your cloud native community meetup. Just like restoring a farm, revitalizing a community requires careful planning, dedication, and a touch of gamification. We'll discuss the strategies that were used for a successful comeback of the Barcelona community such as how to engage older and new organizers, finding captivating topics and events, securing venues and sponsors, attracting speakers, or establishing a regular meetup schedule.

  • Imma Valls

    Grafana Labs
Thursday, March 21 17:25 - 18:00 CET
Prometheus Update from the Maintainers

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring system, and a CNCF Graduated project. Prometheus benefits from a rich ecosystem including Alertmanager, client libraries for many languages, the Prometheus Operator to install on Kubernetes, and dozens of Exporters to provide the raw data.

  • Bryan Boreham

    Grafana Labs

  • Simon Pasquier

    Red Hat
Friday, March 22 14:00 - 15:30 CET
Contribfest: Hands-On Scaling of Prometheus Metric Collection with Kubernetes Operators

These days, many cloud providers have adopted PromQL with the Prometheus data model into their SaaS centralized monitoring offerings. Many mature OSS projects also exist, which allow anyone to set up a centralized observability platform. For this reason, the Prometheus agent use case emerged, focusing on the robust and efficient configuration, scraping, and forwarding the metrics from inside the clusters to the remote storage of your choice.

  • Jesus Vazquez

    Grafana Labs

  • Bartłomiej Płotka

    Google

  • Arthur Silva Sens

    Coralogix

  • Mahmoud Amin

    Google
Friday, March 22 16:00 - 16:35 CET
Deploying with Confidence: Lessons Learned Navigating Deployments of a 100-Strong Development Team

Like many developers, the Grafana as a Service team used to dream of deploying to cloud more often to get features and bugfixes to users faster. However, maintaining release stability amidst major code changes, such as new features or refactors, proved challenging. Join us on our two year journey of transforming our deployment processes to increase release frequency, without compromising stability, while over 100 engineers actively contributed to the codebase. Learn how we facilitated safer rollouts, helped foster a cloud-first mindset, established robust monitoring for seamless and cost-effective feature rollouts, and learned from our mistakes along the way. If you have ever been in the trenches of large-scale application development, this is an opportunity to hear about our experiences delivering software to a large Grafana Cloud userbase, learn about best practices for rolling out features safely to your users, and gain the confidence to implement stable daily deployments yourself.

  • Stephanie Hingtgen

    Grafana Labs

  • Michael Mandrus

    Grafana Labs