High Signal to Noise

The meetup this time is action packed. Three presenters, three platforms: something for everyone.

First up is Karthik Rau, CEO and Founder of SignalFx (https://signalfx.com/). SignalFx is a cool new startup from Silicon Valley. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, SignalFx provides an advanced monitoring service for modern applications and infrastructure. Karthik will present a solid case study: How SignalFx uses SignalFx.

Next, we have Daniel Martinez, Senior Sales Engineer at Splunk (https://www.splunk.com/). Splunk is the original OI platform, and it has an extensive app ecosystem (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/). Daniel will demonstrate how Splunk apps can help you get value from your data -- faster.

Last, but not least, Marji Cermak, Co-Founder and Systems Engineer at Morpht (http://morpht.com/), will demonstrate how easy it is to get started with the Elastic Stack (https://www.elastic.co/products).

And a last minute update! Alois Reitbauer will present an intriguing lightning talk: Can Monitoring Tools Pass the Turing Test?

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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How SignalFx Uses SignalFx

SignalFx is built by small teams developing, deploying, maintaining, and operating their own microservices using technologies like AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Zookeeper and more.

CEO and Co-Founder Karthik Rau will show how SignalFx engineering uses SignalFx to get deep visibility into the operation of all the services, understand how changes in user behavior affect the infrastructure, and track deviations in application performance. Ultimately, leading to high signal to noise ratio in alerting and operational intelligence.

Presenter

Karthik Rau is the CEO and a Founder of SignalFx. Before SignalFx, he held leadership positions as VP Product Management and Worldwide Marketing at VMware and most recently as VP Products and Engineering at Delphix.

Connect with Karthik: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/krrau), Twitter (https://twitter.com/@krrau)

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Splunk Apps: Get Value From Your Data, Faster

As the leading platform for machine data, Splunk enables the curious to look closely at what others ignore—machine data—and find insights that can help make your company more productive, profitable, competitive and secure. The Splunk platform (both available as Cloud and On-Premise), allows you to search through your data to and analyse it in real-time to deliver immediate value to your business.

For years, our vibrant developer community has worked to package Dashboards, Alerts, Reports and Workflows in our Splunk Apps and Add-Ons for almost every imaginable use case. Whether you want to monitor your Cloud or On-Premise infrastructure, connect to a SQL database, search through your Hadoop cluster, analyse the performance of your Applications, or simply inspect your IoT devices from your building, home, or even car, there’s a Splunk App for you.

Presenter

Daniel Martinez, Senior Sales Engineer at Splunk

Connect with Daniel: LinkedIn (https://au.linkedin.com/in/danielmartinezformoso)

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Getting Started with the Elastic Stack

The (B)ELK stack – Beats, Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana – is a popular combination for aggregating, filtering and visualising data from multiple log streams. The focus of this presentation will be on how easy it is to start using the Elastic Stack.

After introducing the components, we will cover how to run the stack on your server or development VM with just a few commands – using the power of Docker – and quickly analyse some of your logs.

Presenter

Marji Cermak, Co-Founder and Systems Engineer at Morpht (http://morpht.com/). Specialising in DevOps, Drupal, (B)ELK, automated systems management, and developer workflow. Despite of the typical nature of most sysadmins, he likes people as well :)

Connect with Marji: LinkedIn (https://au.linkedin.com/in/cermakm), Twitter (https://twitter.com/@cermakm)

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Can Monitoring Tools Pass the Turing Test?

Lightning talk by Alois Reitbauer.

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SPONSORS

SignalFx is generously providing the food and drinks.

SignalFx (https://signalfx.com/) is the most advanced monitoring solution for modern infrastructure. Their mission is to help cloud-ready organizations drive high levels of availability in today’s elastic, agile, distributed environments. With SignalFx, development and operations teams gain a real-time view of, interact with, and take action on the infrastructure and application metrics that matter. SignalFx has enterprise customers including Yelp, Zenefits, Zuora, and Hubspot and thousands of users analyzing billions of metrics every day. SignalFx was founded in 2013 by former Facebook and VMware executives, launched in 2015, and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures.

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SCHEDULE

18:00 — Refreshments

18:15 — How SignalFx Uses SignalFx

18:45 — (Lightning Talk) Can Monitoring Tools Pass the Turing Test?

18:50 — Break

19:15 — Splunk Apps: Get Value From Your Data, Faster

19:45 — Break

19:55 — Getting Started With the Elastic Stack

20:20 — End