Grafana x Apache Kafka®

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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. We'll also show how you can export data to Kafka with remotely modifying the configuration.

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.