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Structured Events are the Basis of Observability

In this inaugural Authors’ Cut session, we kick off your observability journey by exploring the fundamental technical requirements needed for capturing high-cardinality and…

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How Observability Differs from Traditional Monitoring

With a technical foundation in place, this session cuts through the marketing hype to deliver a concrete — and capability-based —definition of the term observability: what it is…

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How Observability Relates to DevOps, SRE, & Cloud Native

In this session, we unpack how observability fits into the landscape of other modern practices, such as DevOps, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)…

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Debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, and What to Buy vs Build

In this session, you’ll learn how it’s possible to resolve incidents quickly with the powerful and widely accessible core analysis loop of an observability tool—where anyone on the team can form…

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Changing Practices on Your Team – Observability Driven Development

Implementing observability isn’t just about how you instrument your applications, but how you work as a team. In this session, we discuss these patterns, and how to…

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Actionable Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Based on What Matters Most

In this session, we discuss the inherent dangers of alert fatigue that are normalized in monitoring-based alerting systems and how the combination of SLOs with structured event data provides…

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Accelerate CI/CD with Observability

We are joined in this session by Frank Chen, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Slack, who will dive into how Slack gained powerful troubleshooting insights by applying…

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Options for Managing Telemetry Volume At Scale & How Slack Does It

In this session, you’ll learn the pros and cons of different sampling techniques and how to still retain granular visibility into your system state. We discuss why sampled events are better than…

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Making the Case: the Business Value of Observability

How do you spread a culture of observability, and make the case to invest time and money on observability tooling? In this session, we unpack how to understand where you are on…