Grafana Labs + IAG Tech Day
This session has ended and is now on-demand
This tech day is now on-demand, and is exclusive only for IAG & CGU employees
This is an exclusive, highly interactive, virtual technical session created specifically for IAG and CGU. Our experts will be sharing aspects of Grafana Enterprise, advancements in visualisation, metrics (Prometheus), and Grafana 8. Hear from your IAG teammates firsthand as they will share their stories and best practices in Grafana.
Whether you are just getting started with monitoring or you are a Grafana expert, join us for this event that will cover the following topics:
- Observability at IAG Today: Prometheus & Grafana Usage
- Scale your observability platform with Grafana Enterprise Stack
- Grafana Usage with IAG API Team
- Build a managed observability framework
- IAG Data/System Observability Stack in the data space using Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus
- Accelerate debugging and troubleshooting using Grafana
- Live “Ask me anything (AMA)” session
- And much more…
Who Should Attend
This technical knowledge-transfer session is ideal for all IT teams that manage and interpret logs and data from various sources like Prometheus, Splunk, Elastic, and New Relic, to name a few. This interactive session will be highly beneficial for individuals who are involved in site reliability engineering (SRE), DevOps, application development and management, data pipeline management, and infrastructure integration.
Agenda
(Indicated timing below is in AEST, is flexible, and is meant to be a guide for the agenda flow)
11:00am-11:10am: IAG + Grafana Labs Welcome and Introduction
Presenters: Dave Newman, Grafana Labs; Sirin Akbas, IAG; Steven Gill, IAG
11:10am - 11:25am: Grafana Labs Overview & Big Tent Philosophy
Session Overview: In this introduction, learn about Grafana Labs, and how we deliver a simple and scalable solution for unifying your data across multiple systems and sources, enabling both real-time and historical analysis in Grafana Cloud or self-hosted on your own infrastructure.
Presenter: Dave Newman, Account Executive, Grafana Labs & Cyril Amsellem, Lead Solutions Engineer, Grafana Labs
11:25am - 11:40am: Observability at IAG Today: Prometheus & Grafana Usage
Session Overview: Stephen Townsend will showcase how his team uses Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a Java COTS product hosted on Kubernetes/Docker in AWS
Presenter: Stephen Townshend, Site Reliability Engineer, IAG
11:40am - 12:00pm: Scale your observability platform with Grafana Enterprise Stack
Session Overview: Learn about Grafana Logs, LogQL, and how to correlate metrics and logs. We will also cover how to Extend Prometheus with Cortex and Grafana Metrics.
Presenter: Cyril Amsellem
12:00pm - 12:15pm: Break
12:15pm - 12:30pm: Grafana Usage with IAG API Team
Session Overview: Senad Ameti will showcase how the IAG API team integrates Grafana into their workflow, and will share lessons learned, and best practices.
Presenter: Senad Ameti, Lead DevOps & API Engineer, IAG
12:30pm - 12:55pm: Build a managed observability framework
Session Overview: In this demo, we will show how to instrument your applications with the Grafana stack, how to user our curated dashboards for your tech stack with particular focus on Sprint boot and Kubernetes, and how to automate deployment and provisioning using dashboards-as-a-code capabilities.
Presenter: Cyril Amsellem
12:55pm - 1:00pm: Break
1:00pm - 1:15am: IAG Data/System Observability Stack in the data space using Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus
Session Overview: Michael Gilhooly will showcase the in-house project IAG Data/System Observability Stack in the data space, and how Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus provided a strong base for the project.
Presenter: Michael Gilhooly, Technical Specialist, Site Reliability Engineering, IAG
1:15pm - 1:45pm: Accelerate debugging and troubleshooting using Grafana
Session Overview: Learn how Grafana can proactively help teams to debug and troubleshoot systems using best practices on correlating metrics, logs, and traces. Cyril will showcase Grafana OnCall to manage alerts and incidents, and advanced alerting and anomaly detections with GrafanaML
Presenter: Cyril Amsellem
1:45pm - 2:00pm: Ask me Anything (AMA)
Session Overview: This time is dedicated to ask anything and everything. You may unmute and ask and/or utilise the Webex chat functionality.
2:00pm: Wrap up and next steps!
Join the conversation
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