Last meetup of the year with Grafana & Friends 🎄

Hi everyone!

We are back with our last meetup before the Xmas break 🎄.

This time, our friends from Isovalent will join us 💥, together with a community speaker from RingCentral 🎉. Don't miss the talks!

We want to thank our friends from Ocado Technology for hosting us in their awesome Barcelona space!

1. Metrics, Logs and Traces: what's the difference [15 min]
Description: Metrics, Logs, and Traces are often referred to as the Three Pillars of Observability. In this brief overview, we'll see what purpose each of these signals serves and how you can switch between them while preserving your search context.
Speaker: Stefano Boriero, Staff Software Engineer at Ocado Technology

2. Cilium & Grafana LGTM! [35 min]
Description: One of the most important things when running applications in an environment like Kubernetes is to have good observability and deep insight of their performance. However, for many applications it can be challenging to update existing applications to provide the observability you need.
Cilium leverages eBPF to provide observability data with Prometheus metrics for your applications without having to modify the application itself.
Using a demo application, we will demonstrate the performance and metrics for that application and how the metrics change when increasing request volumes. We will show how a new configuration of our application introduces error rates and request duration.
Finally, we will demonstrate how tracing headers for the application can be exported with the Hubble HTTP metrics as Exemplars to link metrics to traces in Grafana to monitor each HTTP Request and its duration using Tempo.
The audience will walk away with knowledge how to monitor service-to-service connectivity, collect tracing data and golden metrics using standard Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry with Cilium and eBPF.
Speakers: Raymond de Jong, Field CTO EMEA at Isovalent

3. Why ChatOps is bad for your observability [30 min]
Description: Mike will discuss what can be considered "good" alerting, and we'll try to see why chatops-based solutions contribute towards anti-patterns in this process and which tools better be used instead.
Speaker: Mikhail Toldov, Lead SRE for a videoconferencing service.

After the talks, we'll close with the usual networking with 🍕 and 🥤🍻. Or maybe we should bring "turron" this time? See you there!