Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Despite the migration of services and systems to cloud (either all or in part), many of the fundamental aspects of the day-to-day work IT practitioners do hasn’t changed. It’s just moved. In this session, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg discuss that state of affairs, as well as what monitoring can do to help view those resources as a contiguous whole, despite possibly being split across the on-prem/cloud divide.

In this workshop, we will learn about the basics of observability and its benefits. We will take a hands on approach and actually instrument an application with OpenTelemetry, which is a vendor neutral instrumentation library. Then we will visualise the data sent by open telemetry with SigNoz, which is a full stack observability platform. In the last section, we will take an example of a real world issue and how this observability stack can be used to find the root cause of the issue.