Octobre, 2025 (#25) - "From o-hell to otel" Monitoring with Open Telemetry

Tēnā Koutou AWS Christchurch Community,

Overview:
Welcome back to the AWS User Group Christchurch Meetup Series.
Monitoring chaos got you down? Steve Foster from MadeCurious shares his journey from monitoring hell to streamlined observability using OpenTelemetry. Learn how MadeCurious achieved consistency across their stack and discover practical patterns for implementing OTel in your own AWS environments. Come for the real-world implementation story, stay for the lessons learned along the way.

Venue details:
Special gratitude to MadeCurious for providing the venue for the event.
100 Carlyle Street, Sydenham, Christchurch 8023

Agenda:
5:30 PM - Doors Open, Networking
6:00 PM - Talk Track – Steve Foster - “Streamlined and consistent monitoring using open telemetry"
7:00 PM - Wrap Up, Networking, Fun, Pizza

Meetup Talk Track:

🎤 Speaker Steve Foster

About the Speaker:

1. Steve Foster, Cloud Architect and Engineer with 20+ years of experience in Unix, open source projects and cloud infrastructure. Steve provides technical leadership and guidance, and develop solutions to architectural requirements.

We look forward to seeing you at the meetup! Mā te wa.