🎅🏻Observability Events Issue #2

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hello folks!
This is the second issue for Observability Events monthly digest. Please take a look, share it with your friends, and share your feedback in comments 😏

Featured Observability events

1. Voxxed Days CERN 2024
   https://cern.voxxeddays.com
   Monday, January 22-23, 2023 | Meyrin, Switzerland
   📍In person conference

2. FOSDEM 2024 | Monitoring & Observability room
   https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/monitoring-observability
   3 & 4 February 2024 | Brussels, Belgium
   📍In person conference

3. Elasticon EU:
   https://www.elastic.co/events/elasticon/london
   London,  February 13, 2024
   📍In person conference
   
   Elasticon USA:
   https://www.elastic.co/events/elasticon/toronto
   Toronto, March 6, 2024
   📍In person conference
   
   https://www.elastic.co/events/elasticon/chicago
   Chicago, March 12, 2024
   📍In person conference
   
   https://www.elastic.co/events/elasticon/new-york-city
   New York City, March 26, 2024
   📍In person conference
   
   Elasticon Asia-Pacific:
   https://www.elastic.co/events/elasticon/sydney
   Sydney, February 20, 2024
   📍In person conference
   
   https://www.elastic.co/events/elasticon/singapore
   Singapur, March 5, 2024
   📍In person conference

4. SCALE 21x
   https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x
   18-20 March 2024 | Pasadena, CA, USA
   📍In person conference

5. SREcon24 Americas

   https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24americas
   18-20 March | San Francisco, CA, USA
   📍In person conference

6. KubeCon Europe 2024
   https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe
   19-22 March | Paris, France
   📍In person conference / 🌏Virtual

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Reading corner:

• 🔖 LLM Monitoring and Observability — A Summary of Techniques and Approaches for Responsible AI

• 🔖 A guide to running Incident Command

• 🔖 Adding OpenTelemetry Metrics in Your Go App

• 🔖 Sofia’s Observability Odyssey: The Culture of Observability

• 🔖 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS

• 🔖 A Spooky Performance Regression in AWS EBS Volumes

• 🔖 Open Standards in FinOps: The Key to Understanding Cloud Cost

• 🔖 The State of SQL-based Observability

• 🔖 Grafana or ELK?
  Part1: A Practical Comparative Analysis
  Part2: Performance Evaluation

• 🔖 Container Network Packet Drop in AKS

• 🔖 Load Testing Kubernetes:
  Part1: Building a Framework
  Part2: Load Testing Kubernetes: Resolving bottlenecks and improving performance

• 🔖 Why bother with SLI and SLO?

• 🔖 Performance optimization techniques in time series databases: strings interning

• 🔖 Loki's new TSDB Index

• Our First Netflix Data Engineering Summit

• 🔖 A user's guide to getting started with OpenTelemetry

• 🔖 SLO Compliance Period

• 🔖 Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

• 🔖 Automate the creation of AWS Support cases using Amazon CloudWatch alarms and Amazon Bedrock

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Interesting projects:

• Streamdal is an open-source data observability graph and rule-based management tool that helps you take action. It’s built on a collection of several open-source components - a server, an SDK, and a console UI - designed to integrate seamlessly into your code.
  https://github.com/streamdal/streamdal

• Web-based tool to facilitate OpenTelemetry collector configuration editing and verification
  https://github.com/dash0hq/otelbin

• Export metrics or QAN data from or import them to PMM

  https://github.com/percona/pmm-dump

• A simple service level calculator
  https://github.com/userpixel/slc
  https://slc.alexewerlof.com

• A performance dashboard for Postgres
  https://github.com/ankane/pghero

• 🐝eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of HTTP and HTTPS services

  https://github.com/grafana/beyla

• Convert jemalloc heap profiles to pprof to understand memory usage, fix memory leaks, and fix OOM Kills
  https://github.com/polarsignals/rust-jemalloc-pprof

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Interesting discussions:

• “They maybe trying to address label cardinality but their approach seems like they are throwing the baby out with the bath water. The developer experience suffers as a result because from a dev pov, resource attributes are added to the metric yet this relationship isn't transferred when translated to Prometheus metrics”

  

• “I used a standard 🍺with PromOperator if that helps”

  

DHH: "The cloud exit is done, but the questions keep coming. Oh do they keep coming. So rather than answer the same points over and over (and OVER!), I thought I’d compile a good old fashioned list of Frequently Asked Questions"

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To watch:

• 📺 ObservabilityCON 2023

• 📺 PromCon 2023 | Playlist

• 📺 CiliumCon NA 2023 | Playlist

• 📺 EnvoyCon NA 2023 | Playlist

• 📺 SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa | Playlist

• 📺 Aliaksandr Valialkin - Visualizing Histograms done right

• 📺 eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel [OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY]

• 📺 Perses: The CNCF candidate for observability visualization

• 📺 Linus Torvalds, CreLinus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel

Thanks for reading Observability digest! I'll see you around🎅🏻