Schedule: Monitoring, Observability, and Performance sessions

Liz Fong-Jones and Yoshi Yamaguchi walk you through a microservice-based system with distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry. You'll progress from inspecting raw trace data to visualizing the distributed traces with open source engines such as Jaeger and Zipkin, and you'll export the instrumented data to SaaS products such as Honeycomb and Stackdriver. Read more.

Kevin Crawley walks you through how to configure a Kubernetes cluster in the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), deploy Prometheus and Jaeger to monitor a distributed microservice application, and instrument that application by introducing libraries and tooling to support capturing business metrics. You'll configure, update, and deploy a cloud native application using Gitlab and Gitlab-CI. Read more.

Molly Struve gives you the tools and strategies you need to build a monitoring system that will scale with your team and your infrastructure. Read more.

Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is one of the most exciting topics in the performance analysis space. IOVisor (Linux Foundation’s eBPF project) makes eBPF tools. Lorenzo Fontana is here to to explain how eBPF works, what purpose it serves, and the tooling available for Kubernetes. Read more.

Open source tools for dashboarding and metrics have seen massive adoption in recent years. Riding the hype, the new, shiny tools are inevitably confronted with overblown expectations and problematic usage patterns, causing frustration and criticism. Björn Rabenstein outlines how to use dashboards and metrics effectively rather than condemning them altogether. Read more.

The internet is underpinned by one critical protocol—Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). It's famously simple—by design. That simplicity helped it withstand the test of time and led many organizations to build complicated systems to drive their routing and shape their traffic. It's good enough for almost anything. Go beyond "good enough" with Nathanael Jean-Francois and take BGP to the next level. Read more.

Rob Skillington and Łukasz Szczęsny explore scaling monitoring, alerting, and configurational complexity for a single view of your applications, databases, infrastructure, and operations across all regions using M3 and Prometheus. Read more.

Gilles Dubuc takes a deep dive into how Wikipedia interprets large amounts of real user performance data and the many pitfalls you can fall into when doing so. Read more.