Dave McAllister

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Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering 2022

Adding OpenTelemetry to Production Apps: Lessons Learned

Observability is increasingly important in our modern apps/cloud-native world. However, when adding observability to existing production apps, there are a number of tradeoffs in approaches and in tools. Often, these tradeoffs are an exercise in confusion, leading to decision paralysis. We took on the challenge of adding observability to NGINX MARA, investigating choices, discovering and...

Dave McAllister

NGINX

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Conf42: Cloud Native 2022

Rules of Observability: The Data Edition

There are immutable laws and rules for many things, from nature to physics to karma. Observability, with its innate complexity, also has its own immutable rules, which transform elastic and ephemeral rote reactions to a clear and concise approach and understanding of your environment. Join us to learn the rules you should understand with your approach to observability, including: - The impact...

Dave McAllister

NGINX

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Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering 2021

The Murphy's Laws of Observability

We’re all familiar with Murphy’s Law. “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” And over time, Murphy’s Law has been extended, abstracted and applied to numerous disciplines. Within Observability, the extension of data and monitoring focused on deep insights in our complex apps and environments, Murphy’s Law also reigns supreme. But what laws apply and how do we mitigate impact of points...

Dave McAllister

Splunk

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