Monitor and Graph Everything with Grafana OSS Tools (Toronto Tech Week)

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Starting with OpenTelemetry - Marylia Gutierrez (Grafana Labs)
Have you heard about OpenTelemetry (OTel), but you don't know what it is or how to use it? This talk introduces OpenTelemetry, a powerful and open-source observability framework. We will explore how OpenTelemetry standardizes the collection of telemetry data—logs, metrics, and traces—across various platforms, cover its core components and have a demo on how to see this data in Grafana.

Simplifying performance testing with k6 Studio - Cris Ventura (Grafana Labs)
This talk will showcase k6 Studio, a desktop application that helps you create, run, and analyze performance tests. It provides a user-friendly interface, making load testing more efficient and accessible for developers and QA teams.

Warpstream: The kafka abstraction on s3 which powers Mimir cloud - Arjun Nair (Warpstream)
The talk goes over the implementation system of a next generation kafka/streaming system from first principles and how it can help scale something like production level monitoring databases.