I've been shifting focus at work, from performance engineering to observability, and that means learning a whole lot. More learning in public! First up: #loki. It's a databases for logs with some interesting design decisions that make it more performant than other logs databases. Here's a video I made with my colleague, Jay Clifford, to share what we've learned, including a demo app that ties in Loki, Grafana, and Alloy: https://youtu.be/1uk8LtQqsZQ
I'm doing secondary research trying to reconcile multiple #Observability & #AIOps 'research' reports, and am having trouble corroborating this number. It seems ... optimistic?
TIL how to enable the new Explore Logs app for #loki . Turns out the latest versions of Loki and #grafana don't work with it yet, so you have to specify the right versions and change a few other things in the Docker Compose config. It's so cool that this is open source and not Cloud-only.
One of the most difficult things about being a Developer Advocate for a company like @grafana is explaining how everything fits together. I'm (relatively) new to the company myself, having joined through an acquisition, so figuring out what everything does is something that I've had to do as well. Here's a video to help others piece together all the moving parts of the projects that make up Grafana Labs: https://youtu.be/WSW1urIXsfA #observability#reliability#opentelemetry
We recently got a wifi-enabled hot tub. Some enterprising soul had already created a HA addon to work with it, so I set about implementing #observability, #automation and #alerting.
Amongst other things, it now starts heating automatically if there's plunge pricing on #octopusenergy Agile
We're releasing #loki 3.0 at #grafanacon today, and I have to learn the new features just like everyone! (But better, because I have to talk to people about them too…)
If anyone is going to @grafana ’s #grafanacon this week in Amsterdam, come say hi!
Tomorrow: I'll be at the "Ask the Experts" booth 16:00-17:00 for k6/Tempo/Pyroscope.
On Wednesday, I'll be there at 09:00-10:30 and then I'm leading the Unconference from 14:45-16:45. Come ready for informal discussions about #observability !
What happens when you go to a work conference (KubeCon in Paris) and then go straight from that to a hobby one (PKM Summit in Utrecht)? Well, in my case, you throw together a talk that's a mix of both of those passions. Here's me rehashing a talk I did at PKM Summit that was all about relating system observability to what it might mean to make your Personal Knowledge Management system observable too: https://youtu.be/i-uNtkre1aE
Y'all, my O'Reilly video course on #Observability with #OpenTelemetry is now available! This has been a YEAR IN THE MAKING! Huge thanks to the team at O'Reilly for helping make this happen. Also BIG thanks to my peer reviewers for keeping me honest:
Join us in Berlin next month for this special meet up 😎
Deutsche Bank x VictoriaMetrics: Best Practices on Scaling Observability
📍Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology Centre
🗓️ April 11th from 6.30pm
With a talk by Aliaksandr Valialkin on large-scale logging made easy & a talk by Dmitry Evdokimov on Fixed Income & Currencies - VictoriaMetrics cluster evolution.
Hey, it’s here! In print! Learning OpenTelemetry now available wherever fine books are sold. Find more information at https://learningopentelemetry.com
Loved crossing the streams and getting to talk about both #observability and #pkm in one fell swoop. Lots of good conversation about the impostor syndrome too— a good case for learning in public. Thanks to @arjanbroere for the photo! #pkmsummit24
Wednesday & Thursday: I’ll be in Paris for KubeCon EU 2024-- I'll probably be hanging out at the Grafana booth (L6) as much as I can!
Friday & Saturday: I'll be in Utrecht for PKM Summit. On Friday, @zsviczian and I are doing a talk on using Excalidraw for #ttrpgs , and then I'll be at the LYT meetup with @nickmilo. Saturday I'm doing a solo talk on... something. 😅
"We completely and utterly fucked it up by defining observability to mean “gigachad-scale JSON logs parser with a fancy search engine.” Really? Really? That’s the “we solve Real Serious Business Problems™” strategy we went with?"