May Virtual Meetup-Ghost in the Mesh: AI-Assisted RCA Across Distributed Systems

Your dashboards are green. CPU is healthy. Infrastructure looks stable.

Yet customers are abandoning checkout.

This session explores a realistic distributed outage across Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL and microservices where:

• retry storms amplify failures,

• cache stampedes overload databases,

• Kafka lag silently propagates latency,

• and logs become noisy and misleading.

Using OpenTelemetry with Grafana, Tempo, Loki, and Mimir, distributed tracing exposes the hidden causal chain behind modern production incidents, while AI-assisted root cause analysis correlates traces, logs, metrics, and service dependencies to accelerate incident investigation.

Attendees gain practical insight into:

• why metrics alone are insufficient,

• how traces expose latency propagation,

• how to correlate logs, metrics, and traces effectively,

• and how AI-assisted observability improves troubleshooting in complex distributed systems.

“Your dashboards said healthy.

Your traces told the truth."