Mission O11y Possible : Panic at the Pod - Season 3

It will be a fun filled gamification of Software Operations. simulating real incidents with teams fighting with each other to find the root cause and suggest fixes.

Get ready to wear the cap of SRE & Product Operation specialist. 

Welcome to the chaos. Can you keep production alive?

Participation Types

Team Registration : Participate as a team of 3 members. Participation require knowledge of SRE and Operational concept and preferably hands-on knowledge of Observability Tools. Each Team Member need to request for invite separately. While we prefer building the team in adavance and request for invite, participants will also get the opportunity to make a team on the spot with other participants.

Participants need to have skill to analyze the application issue form the signals like Traces, Metrics and logs.

Primary audience: Experienced SREs and operational engineers responsible for production reliability, with hands-on exposure to any observability platform.

Student participation: Final-year university students with foundational observability knowledge may join as a “junior” teammate alongside an experienced SRE. (Max one student per team.)

Event Details

Step into a live observability battlefield — a simulated production world full of hidden bugs, chaos, and surprise outages.
Your mission? Detect, analyze, and resolve incidents in real time using OpenTelemetry and your best SRE instincts.

But here’s the twist — the CNCG Noida team will inject live panics, random failures, and cascading alerts throughout the event.
Multiple issues. Limited time. Maximum chaos.

🔥 What You’ll Face:

• Real-time alerts from a live, stressed application

• Random performance and reliability issues

• Competing teams racing to restore order

🧠 What You’ll Do:

• Investigate alerts, trace root causes, and submit

• Collaborate under pressure

• Present your RCA and strategy to a panel of judges

🏆 How to Win:

• Fastest and most accurate RCA

• Clear analysis & presentation

• Bonus for handling multiple panics with composure

💥 Ready to trace through the chaos?
Join CNCG Noida for Mission O11y Possible: Panic at the Pod —
because in production, panic is real… but so is your power to stop it.