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OpenObservability Talks

Dotan Horovitsyoutube.com
On OpenObservability Talks we discuss harnessing the power of open source to advance observability initiatives for developers, DevOps and SRE practitioners around the world. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and chime in with your comments and questions on the live chat. https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks You can find us on X (Twitter) @openobserv and BlueSky @openobservability.bsky.social
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Episodes

Interoperability of open-source observability and new signal in the neighborhood, profiling! - OpenObservability Talks S1E10

Join Jonah Kowall and Bartek Plotka for a discussion on the latest happening topics on open source observability. Bartek works on many projects in open source and is Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat; CNCF SIG Observability Tech Lead. He is very active in the community as one of the leaders of Prometheus, Thanos, OpenMetrics, and many other projects.

Mar 29, 202159 minSeason 1Ep. 10

How Much Observability Is Enough? - OpenObservability Talks S1E9

The ninth of our OpenObservability Talks has Jujhar Singh , Global DevSecOps Practice Lead at The Economist. How much observability is enough? What is the investment required to achieve it? How can we drive observability in the company in a measured and pragmatic way? This was first live-streamed on 25 February 2021 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/sR-Q3Z-YP2E Show Notes: How to drive observability in your organization What is the minimum observability needed for your organization?...

Feb 28, 20211 hrSeason 1Ep. 9

Put the OPEN in Observability: Elasticsearch and Kibana relicensing and community chat - OpenObservability Talks S1E8

The eighth of our OpenObservability Talks has Tomer Levy , CEO & Founder of Logz.io . The community is in turmoil around Elastic's announced plan to take Elasticsearch and Kibana off open source. In this episode, both Dotan and Mike have the pleasure of hosting Tomer where we discuss the recent news of Elastic moving Elasticsearch and Kibana to a dual non-OSS license - SSPL and Elastic License - and the implications that have on the open source community around it, including plans to fork El...

Jan 28, 202138 minSeason 1Ep. 8

An Observability chat with Andy Thurai - OpenObservability Talks S1E7

The seventh of our OpenObservability Talks has Andy Thurai, Senior Analyst at GigaOM. Jonah Kowall, CTO and Andy Thurai will talk about Andy's career and journey as a vendor and an analyst. We will discuss the observability market along with APM and other aspects of monitoring. We will then dive into the open-source ecosystem and how this is changing vendor thinking. Of course, we'll also be discussing OpenTelemetry! Andy Thurai is the Founder & Principal at the FieldCTO providing content an...

Dec 31, 202044 minSeason 1Ep. 7

All Metrics Are Wrong, Some Are Useful - OpenObservability Talks S1E6

The sixth of our OpenObservability Talks has Avishai Ish-Shalom, Developer Advocate at ScyllaDB. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You'd be surprised how often it's not the case. On this episode we discussed the math behind metrics, some common misconceptions, what it take to have accurate metrics, and if there even is such a thing. Avishai Ish-Shalom has served as Engineer in Residence in Aleph VC, ...

Nov 29, 20201 hr 13 minSeason 1Ep. 6

Microservices Observability for Developers and Pre-Production - OpenObservability Talks S1E5

The fifth of our OpenObservability Talks has Michael Haberman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aspecto. There's a lot of discussion on how to achieve observability in microservices. Most of the discussion revolves around production workflows such as granular monitoring or debugging of complex environments. A much less discussed aspect is the development stage, before even reaching production. In this talk we will discuss the challenges of microservices environments, and how to leverage tracing for pre-p...

Oct 31, 202058 minSeason 1Ep. 5

Distributed Tracing at Uber-Scale - OpenObservability TalksS1E4

The fourth of our OpenObservability Talks has Albert Teoh from the Jaeger project. Distributed tracing has been gaining momentum with the growing popularity of microservices. Jaeger is a popular open source tool originally developed at Uber and now part of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). Albert had been working at Uber for the past 2.5 years, where he got hands-on with Jaeger. On this talk Albert will share with us his experience with distributed tracing, from introducing it into n...

Sep 30, 202059 minSeason 1Ep. 4

Long-Term Metrics with M3 and Prometheus - OpenObservability Talks S1E3

Episode 3 of OpenObservability Talks, where we'll be hosting Matt Schallert of Chronosphere. The topic for this episode is Long-Term Metrics with M3 and Prometheus. Prometheus is the de facto solution when getting started with metrics, supporting use cases where a single node can store the entire dataset. When it comes to scaling out workloads or storing long-term data, Prometheus offers the Remote Write and Read interfaces to integrate with other storage solutions. In this talk, Matt will show ...

Aug 27, 202054 minSeason 1Ep. 3

A chat with Paul Bruce and Jonah Kowall about the OpenTelemetry community - OpenObservability Talks S1E2

Episode 2 of OpenObservability Talks, where we'll be hosting Paul Bruce of Neotys and Jonah Kowall of Logz.io. Our topic of discussion today is OpenTelemetry and the thriving community around it. This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on July 30th and the full video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtxYgT-mopY If you have a talk or a subject you'd like to talk about send it here https://forms.gle/pTVwDMCP1fK32tAF9 Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/O...

Jul 30, 20201 hr 11 minSeason 1Ep. 2

Five Tips on Application Monitoring with Prometheus - OpenObservability Talks S1E1

Welcome to the first-ever OpenObservability Talks! This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on June 25th and the full video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otb57MNZfKA You'll get an introduction to the series, a talk by Jack Neely of 42 Lines on Five Tips on Application Monitoring with Prometheus, and a run-through of current events in the world of Open Source Observability and the things that affect it. If you'd like to submit a session for a later even...

Jun 29, 202040 minSeason 1Ep. 1
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