Main Conference (August 5th, 2022)

Cloud Native Observability

In your journey to cloud-native, it is important to measure every step you take towards complete understanding of your workloads, how they are performing and where you should concentrate your attention to.

On early days, making sure you were monitoring every application and collecting every log line in your stack was enough, but according to DORA State of DevOps research program and Google's Cloud Architecture Center, ​if too many alerts are not actionable, or result in no improvement, the team will easily miss those alerts that are meaningful and possibly very important, a problem known as alarm fatigue.

However, the right amount of observability improves the performance of distributed IT systems by using three types of telemetry data — metrics, logs and traces — so that teams can find root cause of issues and improve the system’s performance. Observability addresses the increasingly rapid, distributed and dynamic nature of cloud-native application deployments.

This talk describes what is cloud-native observability, what are key patterns to look at, how to upscale your monitoring stack into a cloud-native observability suite and where to start your journey

Gleidson Nascimento

Customer Success Manager at IBM

Gleidson Nascimento is a software engineering leader based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has been responsible for delivering automation to large and complex integration environments to government and enterprise companies, and for helping Silicon Valley CxO-level executives to technically bootstrap start-ups, from ideation all the way to Series C funding.

He is also an active open-source developer, helping organisations to deliver FOSS solutions to the community such as Moleculer-go and goa.design. He is also a member of CentOS PaaS SIG.

Currently, he works at IBM as a Customer Success Manager, helping customers to achieve their goals with hybrid cloud, while fostering a continuous learning and improvement culture from inside out. He also publicly speaks at conferences and provides workshops about company culture, automation and communication.