Observability Day at Datadog

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Learn about 'all things observability' during this edition where we welcome you at the Datadog Amsterdam office. Check out the agenda below and be ready to get inspired, network and have fun!

!! Besides the main agenda Datadog will also organise a small scale hands-on Observability 101 Workshop from 16.00-17.30. Learn more about this opportunity and click HERE to RSVP for the Workshop.

Agenda

18.00 - 18.30 Walk-in Meetup + Food & Drinks

18.30 - 18.35 Kick off: Welcome by Datadog & CNCF

18:35 - 18:45 Lightning Talks

18:45 - 19:30 Using OpenTelemetry for Metrics in Datadog | by Dinesh Gurumurthy & Pablo Baeyens (Datadog)

19:30 - 19:45 Break

19:45 - 20:30 Picnic on their Observability journey | by Phil Leonard and Harkeet Bajaj (Picnic)

20:30 - 21:30 Networking + Drinks

Talk 1: Using OpenTelemetry for Metrics in Datadog

Speaker: Dinesh Gurumurthy (Sr Software Engineer OpenTelemetry) and Pablo Baeyens (Software Engineer OpenTelemetry) at Datadog

OpenTelemetry is a CNCF project that allows you to instrument your applications and infrastructure in a vendor-neutral way to produce metrics, traces and logs. In this talk we will explore how to use OpenTelemetry for:

How to use the most common instruments including Exponential Histograms to measure relevant application metrics

Exporting and processing your data via the OpenTelemetry Collector

Adding context with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions

Troubleshooting your deployment if something goes wrong

We will finish by discussing the future roadmap of OpenTelemetry for metrics, the Collector and semantic conventions.

Talk 2: Picnic on their Observability journey

Speakers: Phil Leonard (Domain Lead Platform & Foundation) and Harkeet Bajaj (Platform Engineer) at Picnic