Agenda

1. 9:00 AM 10:00 AM

   Registration + Expo

   Enjoy a light breakfast while networking with attendees and exploring Grafana demos in the Expo hall
2. 10:00 AM 10:45 AM

   ObservabilityCON on the Road Keynote

   Live in Berlin, it’s ObservabilityCON on the Road! Join Community Director, Richard Hartmann, for a look at the latest trends across the observability ecosystem and developments in the open and composable LGTM (Loki-Grafana-Tempo-Mimir) observability stack.

   

   

   • Richard "RichiH" Hartmann, Director, Community, Grafana Labs
   • Tom Wilkie, Chief Technology Officer, Grafana Labs
3. 10:45 AM 11:15 AM

   How to reduce observability costs by controlling metrics growth

   The shift to cloud native architectures and increased developer autonomy to instrument applications has caused an explosive growth of metrics data and cardinality. But more data does not mean better observability: It can be difficult to balance scale while managing costs.

   Learn how Grafana Cloud can help lower your observability bills. By regulating metrics growth through governance and unique customized aggregations, you optimize your costs and pay closer to what you actually use.

   

   

   • Gyorgy Krajcsovits, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
   • Archana Kesavan, Director, Product Marketing, Grafana Labs
4. 11:15 AM 11:45 AM

   How Grafana Cloud turned Black Friday into a dream sales day for Emma — the Sleep Company

   In the months leading up to Black Friday, Emma Sleep turned to Grafana Cloud, k6, and Loki to implement an observability strategy that would ensure the best user experience and system stability during the biggest shopping period of the year. In this talk, you’ll hear how Grafana helped the team monitor the integration between two systems (old and new) to check if the split of traffic was working; how they set up alerting; and how both technical and business teams relied on key dashboards so they didn’t have to lose any sleep.

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   • Charbel Wakim, Tech Lead OpenMage / DevOps Engineer, Emma Sleep
5. 11:45 AM 12:45 PM

   Lunch
6. 12:45 PM 1:15 PM

   How to manage the tradeoff between cost and coverage for observability logs

   Logs have always been, and continue to be, a critical part of the troubleshooting workflow for observability and SRE teams. But the reputation of legacy solutions being expensive on budgets and resources – for storing and querying – results in teams making tradeoffs on which services and applications to instrument logging. This creates observability blind spots.

   Learn how Grafana Loki can help you optimize multiple stages of your logging lifecycle – from supporting multiple log formats and smaller indexing, to blazing fast querying and long-term retention. Uniquely built on Prometheus architecture, Grafana Loki is a cost-effective logging solution purpose built for observability.

   

   

   • Ward Bekker, Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
   • Karsten Jeschkies, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
7. 1:15 PM 1:45 PM

   Democratizing observability in SAP HANA Cloud development with Grafana Enterprise

   SAP HANA Cloud is the backbone of SAP’s fast-growing database and data management cloud offering. To monitor the global landscape of SAP HANA Cloud clusters, SAP combines Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Loki with other open source components in a fully automated deployment.

   Learn how SAP created a push-button solution to deploy complete multi-cluster product landscapes, including an integrated observability infrastructure. You’ll hear how microservice developers around the globe can independently onboard new metrics, logs, and Grafana dashboards as part of the CI/CD process.

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   • Daniel Johannsen, Development Architect, SAP
8. 1:45 PM 2:15 PM

   How to avoid the most common Kubernetes monitoring mistakes

   Which metrics should you collect? What dashboards are best suited to effectively monitor Kubernetes clusters? How do you measure resource utilization for capacity planning? Often, this is all a game of trial and error – and one that business-critical services cannot afford.

   Learn how Grafana Cloud’s K8s monitoring solution was built so you can avoid the guessing game and kickstart your K8s observability strategy in minutes. In this session, we break down the most common Kubernetes monitoring mistakes and share best practices on how to set up Kubernetes monitoring the optimal way.

   

   

   • Gloria Semme, Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs
   • Jake Swiss, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Grafana Labs
9. 2:15 PM 2:45 PM

   Afternoon break
10. 2:45 PM 3:15 PM

    Scalable and cost efficient observability with Grafana Mimir and Loki

    As one of the world’s leading local delivery platforms, DeliveryHero knows that in order to keep their large global ecosystem of riders, restaurants, shops, partners, and end customers loyal and satisfied, they must first keep their systems healthy and their applications functional. To come up with a solution, the DeliveryHero observability team turned to the LGTM Stack to power metrics and log aggregation for their Logistics vertical. Join System Engineer Ankit Goel and Oliver Klette as they walk through the observability team’s journey, from choosing Grafana Mimir over VictoriaMetrics and Cortex for metrics, to finding that Grafana Loki could meet their log aggregation needs. You’ll learn how the solution is designed to integrate logs and metrics, and how it’s keeping costs in control.

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    • Ankit Goel, System Engineer, Delivery Hero
    • Oliver Klette, System Engineer, Delivery Hero
11. 3:15 PM 3:45 PM

    How to prioritize critical resources through SLO-driven Incident Response & Management

    Prioritizing performance issues based on business impact is often challenging because it is hard to quantify the right SLO/SLI levels.

    Learn how you can build an SLO framework.

    

    

    • Jake Swiss, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Grafana Labs
    • César Armada, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
12. 3:45 PM 4:15 PM

    How to prevent issues from hitting customers by using load testing and tracing together

    With the increased demand to ship new features, developers can overlook the importance of catching and resolving performance issues before they hit end users in production. Learn how Grafana’s unique solution of k6 performance testing correlated with Grafana Tempo distributed tracing can help developers easily prevent performance problems before they become an issue.

    

    

    • Myrle Krantz, Engineering Director, Grafana Labs
    • Cristian González, Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs
13. 4:15 PM 5:30 PM

    Reception + Expo

    Join us for appetizers and beverages while networking with attendees and meeting Grafana experts in the Expo hall