OpenObservability Talks

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-production purposes such as improving your tests, understand dependencies and more. Michael Haberman is a veteran in the microservices space and brings significant experience as a software architect and a consultant. Michael  shared his experience on achieving observability in microservices environments in general, and during development stages in particular, with some useful tips on how to solve production issues, before they reach production. This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on October 29th and the full video is available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKOtaBdQAJVRJqhJDuOlPg The live recording of the OpenObservability talks is the last Thursday of each month, and you can join us on Twitch or YouTube Live. Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKOtaBdQAJVRJqhJDuOlPg Website: https://openobservability.io/ Links Shared in the recording: OpenTelemetry's Tracing Specification Reaches Release Candidate A new open source project: Promscale, An analytical platform and long-term store for Prometheus, with the combined power of SQL and PromQL AWS announcing Public Preview of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

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 new code all the way to production. Albert will explain important concepts and considerations, and will discuss common challenges and solutions in introducing distributed tracing in an existing large scale system. This was first streamed on 24 September 2020 and the full video is available at https://youtu.be/35aInRLbTQo The live recording of the OpenObservability talks is the last Thursday of each month, and you can join us on Twitch or YouTube Live.  Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKOtaBdQAJVRJqhJDuOlPg Resources: why Jaeger was built by Uber Engineering: https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/ Domain oriented microservice architecture: https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/ Reference to resource usage attribution, from the book "Mastering Distributed Tracing" by Yuri Shkuro: https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/networking_and_servers/9781788628464/2/ch02lvl1sec28/resource-usage-attribution CNCF published the second quarterly CNCF End User Technology Radars; the topic for this Technology Radar is observability https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/09/11/cncf-end-user-technology-radar-observability-september-2020/ Crtex & Thanos voted into CNCF incubation https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/08/20/toc-welcomes-cortex-as-an-incubating-project/  https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/08/19/toc-approves-thanos-from-sandbox-to-incubation/ Kubernetes v1.19 release offers structured logs for the system components https://logz.io/blog/a-practical-guide-to-kubernetes-logging/

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 attendees how they can scale their existing Prometheus metrics workloads with M3, an open-source metrics platform originated at Uber. Matt will discuss the background of Prometheus’s remote storage interfaces, and how they enable users to integrate with any number of systems they’re familiar with. He will demonstrate how quickly users can get an M3 stack up and running and integrate it with Prometheus. The audience will walk away with a better understanding of the challenges of effectively scaling their metrics workloads, and how they can overcome these challenges with open source tools such as M3. This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on August 27th and the full video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ_yCLyAMLU Links Shared in the recording: M3 Virtual Meetup https://www.meetup.com/M3-Community/ M3 Slack Community https://bit.ly/m3slack 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/OpenObserv Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability Website: https://openobservability.io/

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/OpenObserv Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability Website: https://openobservability.io/

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 event then just drop it in the CFP here https://forms.gle/Le691dn7CU35GwKq7 Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKOtaBdQAJVRJqhJDuOlPg Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability Website: https://openobservability.io/