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 Amsterdam, it’s ObservabilityCON on the Road! Join Grafana Labs CTO Tom Wilkie and VP Solutions Engineering Dave Russell 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.

   

   

   • Dave Russell, VP, Solutions Engineering, 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.

   

   • Dimitar Dimitrov, Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
4. 11:15 AM 11:45 AM

   Through the looking glass of OpenTelemetry

   Mambu provides a cloud banking platform to hundreds of customers in more than 65 countries. In this talk, Senior Engineering Manager Onur Beygo will share why and how the company is standardizing on OpenTelemetry and Grafana Enterprise to achieve vendor-neutral, open source observability, with meaningful insights gained through the correlation of metrics, logs, and traces in one UI. You’ll also hear how the observability team gained mindshare by quickly showing business value and creating an easy path for development teams with autoinstrumentation, and what’s next for OpenTelemetry and the Grafana Stack at Mambu.

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   • Onur Beygo, Senior Engineering Manager of Observability, Mambu
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
   • Michel Hollands, Senior Backend Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
7. 1:15 PM 1:45 PM

   From OSS to Grafana Enterprise: What Topicus. Education learned along the way

   Topicus provides learning platforms that deliver teacher empowerment, student and parent engagement, and operational and financial excellence for schools across the Netherlands. Six years ago, the Topicus team started hacking together a monitoring platform for the company’s systems using open source Grafana, before eventually moving to Grafana Enterprise on prem and adding Grafana Enterprise Logs. In this session, you’ll hear the lessons they learned along the way and what they wish they’d known before they started.

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   • Kenneth Veenstra, Teamlead of the platform and infrastructure, Topicus
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.

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9. 2:15 PM 2:45 PM

   Afternoon break
10. 2:45 PM 3:15 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 that unifies data from multiple disparate tools and is integrated into a seamless incident management workflow with Grafana OnCall and Incident. You can then prioritize responding to the most critical error budget burndowns, allowing your critical developers to focus on innovation rather than firefighting performance issues.

    

    • Mitch Seaman, Director of Product, Grafana Labs
11. 3:15 PM 3:45 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
    • Mario Rodriguez, Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
12. 3:45 PM 4:45 PM

    Reception + Expo

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