The world of cloud-native and distributed microservices has revolutionized software development and deployment. However, the sheer volume of data these systems generate can often lead to confusion and uncertainty. You're not alone if you've ever felt lost in the sea of observability data.

Organizations face increasingly complex challenges in deploying and managing their systems in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape. Declarative provisioning and observability have emerged as a powerful approach to address these challenges. This talk delves into declarative provisioning and observability, exploring its benefits, principles, and practical implementation strategies.

The challenges in the monitoring world are known widely. We all know about these problems, what they are, and why they are important. While each one of the problems has its own solution, it all boils down to one thing – COST. How do we balance the tradeoffs without worrying about the huge costs of solving these challenges? For high-precision monitoring and observability, you need efficient and high-precision control levers. Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse.

Talk from Michael Hausenblas - AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Product Manager on "Best Practices for using Amazon Distro for OpenTelemetry" We host industry experts in Observability and Reliability on our Last9 Community Discord.

Talk at Geekle Ruby on Rails Global Summit 2023 A talk on using OpenTelemetry for monitoring Ruby on Rails applications. Keep up with everything to do in the world of SRE & updates around interesting stories from fighting for your 9s.

Most of us have heard about SLOs and what they mean but always found it hard to start adopting them across our teams. This video is a way to demystify the journey of adoption of SLOs, with examples of how several large companies like Disney adopted them. Whether you are new to the DevOps/SRE world or an experienced developer, you will learn a fresh approach to making software more reliable!