ObservabilityCON 2023, 14-15 November, London

ObserabilityCon will take pace in London from 14-15 November. In this event, there will be sharing of technical tips and tricks, winning observability strategies, and the newest features from Grafana Labs.

ObserabilityCon Agenda:

Day 1 14 November 2023

08:00 Registration & breakfast for workshop attendees

09:00 Introduction to service level objectives workshop

Master the basics of service level objectives (SLOs) and see exactly how to start creating your own. Get a brief history of SLOs and an introduction to everything from error budgets to OSS tooling for SLOs, then practise creating and importing your own in Grafana Cloud.

09:00 Introduction to performance testing with Grafana k6 workshop

09:00 Introduction to logging with Grafana Loki workshop

Get insider tips and best practices for creating Grafana dashboards with Loki. Learn how to build your own dashboard, including setting up your data sources and customising visualisations. Plus: Find out how you can correlate logs, metrics, and traces in Grafana to reduce MTTR.

12:00 Lunch & Expo for all conference attendees

13:30 Opening keynote

Grafana ObservabilityCON 2023 kicks off in London with a keynote featuring CEO/Co-founder Raj Dutt, CTO Tom Wilkie, and members of the Grafana Labs engineering team. Come for the latest developments in the open and composable LGTM (Loki-Grafana-Tempo-Mimir) observability stack, and stay for some exciting announcements!

14:30 With OpenTelemetry, ComplyAdvantage overhauled its observability (twice)

ComplyAdvantage, which provides compliance and risk management tools, has overhauled its observability platform twice in two years, first moving from on-prem Grafana OSS to Datadog, and then migrating from Datadog to Grafana Cloud.

15:00 Unify your application and infrastructure observability

In cloud native environments, finding and resolving issues across services and between application and infrastructure dependencies can be challenging. 

15:30 Afternoon break

16:00 How Maersk is navigating the seas of observability with the LGTM Stack

Maersk, a global leader in shipping and logistics, is forging its path to enhanced observability. To streamline operations and empower developers to take the helm in observability, Maersk embarked on a journey to consolidate tools into a centralised platform. 

16:30 Manage rising metrics and logging costs with Grafana Cloud

Are your SRE and platform teams under pressure to ingest fewer metrics and logs in the name of cost savings? Reducing costs does not have to mean reduced observability. 

17:00 Welcome reception

Close out the first day of ObservabilityCON in high spirits! Enjoy delicious food, specialty drinks, and a few fun surprises – all in the excellent company of your fellow conference attendees.

Day 2 15 November 2023

08:00 Registration & breakfast

09:00 Panel: What we've learned building observability at massive scale

An in-depth conversation with a panel of observability leaders from Sky, Just Eat Takeaway.com, and BlackRock. They’ll share stories about their organizations’ observability journeys, their perspectives on scaling observability across an enterprise, and their opinions on the current trends in the space.

09:45 Building scalable OSS observability with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope

Get the latest news about the scalability and performance of the open source telemetry backends that make up the Grafana LGTM Stack: Grafana Mimir for Prometheus metrics, Grafana Loki for logs, and Grafana Tempo for traces. 

10:30 Morning break

11:00 Actian & Grafana Cloud: The search for a customizable observability tool

Over the past few years, Actian has shifted from offering a solely on-premises data integration, management, and analytics product to supporting hybrid and multi-cloud environments as well. 

11:30 Prioritize critical resources with SLO-driven IRM

A majority of respondents in our Observability Survey said they were using SLOs or moving in that direction. For good reason: By highlighting the most critical error budget burndown, service level objectives (SLOs) can help you prioritize performance issues based on business impact. 

12:00 How the LGTM Stack changed the observability culture at Wise Payments

The observability team at Wise Payments – Europe’s leader in cross-border money transfers – had long provided the company’s developers access to a multitude of tools. But as costs and complexity increased, Ibukun Itimi, Engineering Lead for Observability and Andrew Brown, Reliability Squad Lead, saw an opportunity to change not only the tools they were using, but also the observability culture. 

12:30 Lunch & expo

Learn how a user like you leveraged Grafana observability tools to overcome obstacles and transform operations at their organisation.

14:00 AI/ML + open source observability

15:30 Closing

Agenda source: event website