Name: Kubernetes, Reliability and Managing OpenTelemetry at Scale
Start: 2025-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-04T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Improving Offices Liberty Village

Join us for presentations, snacks, and discussion! This time around we have a very diverse agenda of monitoring topics. We'll talk about how to manage a fleet of OpenTelemetry collectors, how to monitor Kubernetes Clusters and ensuring service reliability with synthetic monitoring and web front-end monitoring.

**Special thanks to Improving for hosting us at their Liberty Village office and for Confluent for co-hosting again with us.**

**Agenda:**

6:00- 6:20 PM: Arrivals and introductions

6:20- 6:40 PM: K8s pop demon hunters!

6:40- 6:45 PM: Q&A

6:45- 7:15 PM: Managing a fleet of OpenTelemetry Collectors

7:15- 7:20 PM: Q&A

7:20- 7:45 PM: Ensuring service reliability

7:45-8:30 PM: Q&A, networking and wrap up

**Talk 1: K8s pop demon hunters! Or, how to monitor your K8s (Kubernetes) clusters - Serena from Grafana**
Ooh I still feel like I'm pretty new to my team, but I'll be covering on how to do proper Kubernetes Monitoring.

**Serena** I'm the backend eng on kubernetes monitoring. With that said, we don't actually have a backend on our plugin, so tbh I'm not even sure what my job really means anymore.

**Talk 2: Managing a fleet of OpenTelemetry Collectors - Marko Bachvarovski - Grafana**

A talk on how to manage a fleet of OpenTelemetry Collectors at scale, how we do it at Grafana Labs and how you can get started with it.

**Marko** is a software engineer at Grafana, working on the Fleet Management team, for a little over 3 months now. Before Grafana I worked at local startups here in Toronto, and I studied Physics and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Today I'd like to talk to you about how Grafana manages telemetry collectors at scale!

**Talk 3: Reliability with k6 Studio and Grafana Cloud - Cristiano Ventura - Grafana**

This talk shows how you can improve reliability of your user flows with Grafana k6 Studio, Synthetic Monitoring, Frontend Observability and k6.

**Cristiano** is a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs working on k6 Studio. Before joining Grafana he worked for several companies focusing on Full-Stack development and implementing DevOps practices to optimize performance and streamline workflows.

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