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Interview

Monitoring critical systems at Roblox with Grafana and Grafana Agent

It’s like an obby unto itself: With roughly 100 million global active users, how does an observability team monitor operations and troubleshoot problems that pop up across more than 10,000 servers? In this session, you’ll get an inside look at how the Roblox team evolved their observability platform to combine a multitude of data sources, from low-level hardware health to high-level performance metrics. Grafana Agent plays a key role by replacing many special-purpose pipelines with a single, easy-to-manage tool. Roblox’s observability team has met growing demand to provide actionable insights to hundreds of engineers, covering dozens of data sources and thousands of Grafana dashboards, which all help keep its infrastructure running and ready for play.

Distributed Observability: A Look into ESG Research

What are your colleagues' top concerns as they navigate between monitoring and observability? How are they planning for a cloud migration and moving away from a siloed approach? This brief video brings together industry experts from ESG to discuss results from their recent cloud observability survey, and gives a sneak preview into how Space Ape Games benefited from VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront.

Hot Ones Interview with an Engineering Manager

In this video, we do a spin off of one of our favorite shows Hot Ones, where we combine an interview with Web Platform Team Technical Project Manager Steven and our Web Platform Team EM Vladan, and hot sauces. Meet both of them in this in this video, and watch them suffer as they go from one hot sauce level to the next just like they do in Hot ones.

Learn how our Chief Troublemaker transformed infrastructure troubleshooting.

When no available tool could help Costa Tsaousis identify his own infrastructure problem, he invented one that could. Netdata’s founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker tells how his invention went viral, how the Netdata Way transforms monitoring and troubleshooting, and how he plans to keep Netdata free, forever.