The observability graph: Knowledge graphs for automated infrastructure observability (sponsored by Datadog)

Description

The complexity and dynamism of distributed systems reflect both the teams that develop them and the products they support. Your observability tools need to be dynamic enough to keep up with your changing infrastructure and flexible enough to take in observability data of all types, yet understand that data well enough to show only what you care about.

Knowledge graphs have become an increasingly popular method for storing data, as they can explicitly but also flexibly encode the relationships between entities. Using both domain knowledge and user interaction data, Homin Lee walks you through how to train models to encode the vast amounts of data produced by observability tools into a knowledge graph, discover how they are interlinked, and imbue them with meaning.

You’ll see the details of how to construct these knowledge graphs, dubbed observability graphs, to reflect the innate structure (but also the uncertainty) in today’s dynamic infrastructure. Homin outlines how the knowledge graphs can be used to power automated alerting, alert clustering, and automated root-cause analysis.

This session is sponsored by Datadog.