Monitoring: case studies over time¶

19 case studies across 13 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "monitoring"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Affirmed Networks, DE-CIX, GitLab, Infobip, JD.COM, NVIDIA, Northwestern Mutual, Planet, Salesforce, Splunk, Spotify, Uber, Weaveworks

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)¶

Would You Like Some Tracing With Your Monitoring? - Yuri Shkuro, Uber Technologies — Uber¶

Uber explains how it combines distributed tracing with monitoring, drawing on its experience building Jaeger.

Using Custom Resources to Provide Cloud Native API Management - Frank B Greco Jr — Northwestern Mutual¶

Northwestern Mutual presents Kanali, its open source Kubernetes-native API gateway built on custom resources, with a demo of how it manages APIs.

▶ 1:27 … authorization and a JD Beatty authorization you know rate limiting transformation monitoring routing tracing etc and it's this piece of software it's …
▶ 6:32 … a full API management solution without tools for tracing analytics and monitoring automatic API key generation etc so it needed to have this whole …
▶ 18:10 demo of this next we use graph Anna and in flexi b4 for analytics and monitoring and we've found a completely configurable the …
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2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)¶

Kube-Liveboard: Make Your Cluster Visible - Xinkun Xu, JD.COM — JD.COM¶

JD.COM presents Kube-Liveboard, a tool it built to make its Kubernetes clusters visible.

Canary Deployment With Prometheus - Andrey Markelov, Infobip — Infobip¶

Infobip shows how it runs canary deployments using Prometheus metrics.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)¶

Federated Prometheus Monitoring at Scale - Nandhakumar Venkatachalam & LungChih Tung ¶

Feeding Realworld Data into Prometheus Microservice Apps on Kubernetes - Burkhard Noltensmeier ¶

Shows how real-world data was fed into Prometheus for monitoring microservice applications running on Kubernetes.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 (Shanghai)¶

Real World Architecture - Building a Global Cross-Cloud Monitoring... Dominic Green & Yifan Zhao ¶

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)¶

From New Cluster to Insight. Deploying Monitoring and Logging to Kubernetes - Eddie Zaneski ¶

M3 and Prometheus, Monitoring at Planet Scale for Everyone - Rob Skillington, Uber — Planet, Uber¶

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)¶

Lightning Talk: How the Observability Team at Spotify Radically Decreased... Lauren Muhlhauser — Spotify¶

Spotify's observability team describes how it radically decreased observability costs or usage.

The Great Cardinality Disasters of Our Time - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks & Chris Marchbanks, Splunk — Weaveworks, Splunk¶

Weaveworks and Splunk engineers recount real Prometheus high-cardinality disasters and lessons learned.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual¶

Monitoring GPUs at Scale for AI/ML and HPC Clusters - Bharti L Agrawal, NVIDIA — NVIDIA¶

Operating Enterprise Grade Kubernetes Clusters at Salesforce on Bare... Anubhav Dhoot & Mayank Kumar — Salesforce¶

Salesforce shares its architecture and four and a half years of war stories operating enterprise Kubernetes on bare metal.

▶ 8:07 … monitor infrastructure and alert us we also implemented a sequel based monitoring pipeline that provides snapshot visibility and custom alerting and i'll go …
▶ 21:16 … over the last 4.5 years the whole infrastructure has tight integrations with networking security and monitoring we have invested in watchdog monitoring alerting
▶ 23:30 for kubernetes resources and it helps in debugging and monitoring anu touched upon these in his previous slides as well if you want to …
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2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual¶

Observability Brings Clarity in 5G World - Yamini Sridaran & Praveen George, Affirmed Networks — Affirmed Networks¶

Affirmed Networks describes how it applies observability to run its 5G network workloads.

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022¶

From Monitoring to Observability: Left Shift your SLOs with Chaos - Michael Friedrich, GitLab — GitLab¶

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022¶

Tamland: How GitLab.Com Uses Long-Term Monitoring Data For Capacity Forecasting. - Andrew Newdigate — GitLab¶

GitLab shows how Tamland uses long-term monitoring data to forecast capacity for GitLab.com.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024¶

From Chaos to Control: Cloud Native Governance with Kyverno! — DE-CIX¶

DE-CIX describes using Kyverno policies to govern its Kubernetes environment, plus recent additions and the project roadmap.

▶ 2:10 … platform team which um yeah is providing centralized services like a monitoring a long-term metric storage a logging stack uh we also provide …
▶ 2:54 … have different teams that get manage kubernetes clusters they get a monitoring stack they get a logging environment that we take care of we …
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2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025¶

Observability at Scale With Monitoring as Code... Vipin GopalaKrishnapillai & Saiabhinay Bommakanti ¶

Presents practicing observability at scale through monitoring-as-code, based on the speakers' organization's own approach.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025¶

Adopting a Fleet-first Mindset - Andy Beane, Spotify — Spotify¶

Spotify explains how adopting a fleet-first mindset and its Fleetshift platform enabled fleet-wide changes at scale.

▶ 10:58 … When a PR is merged, we firewatch the fleet, monitoring successful and failed deployments. And if a threshold is exceeded, we trigger an alert …
▶ 14:36 with migrations I find is with communication, continual monitoring and measuring as well as providing the context in one place. So, I don't …
▶ 19:41 scale with monitoring and visibility. So now as we are in progress with this monorrebon migration across our engineering domains such as front-end …
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