ElasticON Sydney & Google Cloud Meetup

We will have a joint meetup with Google Cloud at our Sydney office on Wednesday, March 5th, the night before ElasticON Sydney 2025. We'll have presentations, networking, pizza and refreshments.

By the way, don't forget to register for ElasticON Sydney 2025. It is a free, one-day event series happening around the world, and this time, we welcome the event to our wonderful Sydney. We will have an insightful community track with talks from our users!

Agenda
18.00: Doors Open, join us for pizza and a drink

18.30: Talk #1: Finding Your Balance: Observability with Elastic and OpenTelemetry - A Hybrid Approach to Automatic and Manual Instrumentation in Python
Justin Castilla - Senior Developer Advocate @ Elastic
Abstract: Achieving effective Observability in modern distributed systems isn’t about collecting all the data—it’s about collecting the right data for you. In this talk, we’ll explore how combining automatic and manual instrumentation with OpenTelemetry can create a balanced Observability strategy tailored to your application’s needs. We’ll cover the quick wins of automatic instrumentation, how to configure it to reduce noise, and how to integrate the granular context manual instrumentation brings to critical workflows. Using Elastic as an Observability platform, we’ll demonstrate how this hybrid approach provides actionable insights by focusing on what truly matters. Whether you’re new to Observability or refining your existing setup, this session will help you strike the perfect balance.

19.00: Talk #2: TBC
Matt Carpenter - Head of Customer Engineering for Telecommunications and Financial Services @ Google Cloud

19.30: Networking

20.00: Close

PS: Join ElasticON Sydney the next day — a free, full-day conference on search, observability, and security with Elastic, you can register here.