Observability is a highly relevant topic and if you still don't know what it is, you should update yourself quickly. Since last year I have been learning a lot about this new monitoring world and in this edition of the Grafana and Friends meetup in Munich at the Pure Storage office it was no different.
There were 3 talks in total:
Data Sovereignity for Container Landscapes by Markus Grau
Grafana Beyla, Zero code Instrumentation with eBPF by Fabian Stäber
GrafanaCon 2025 keynote and some project news by Richard Hartmann
The most relevant points for me were:
The event started with Markus showing Pure Storage's storage technology and how they have been working with data management and compliance with data sovereignty rules in Germany.
Next was instrumentation using eBPF. Until then I knew observability only through opentelemetry SDKs but seeing that it's also possible to do the same or even better at the lower layer, I found it incredible.
Another interesting point was learning that the Beyla project is now also part of opentelemetry, which means the community will be able to trust the convention even more.
Information about how to capture metrics was also valuable. Until then I was only using opentelemetry tracers, spans and logs and it seems that when it comes to metrics, Beyla's maturity is greater.
Then came Richard's talk where he showed the various Grafana 12 updates, the profiling improvements and the dynamic dashboards feature were very welcome and even more so the release of API standardization.
Later at the end, Richard shared some details about the development process of the latest release and showed some investigation features using AI, which means good things are coming soon.
All these meetups I have been attending have been extremely valuable. I met many people who do and share a lot with everyone. Many thanks Sebastian Schubert, Richard Hartmann and Fabian Staber and Markus Grau for making this event possible. See you next time.
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