Meet the first batch of Open Source Monitoring Conference 2024 speakers! Get ready for an inspiring conference with the brightest minds in open-source monitoring.
Meet the Experts
Coming from different backgrounds, our speakers are distinguished leaders and innovators in open-source monitoring, ready to share their vast experience. Here are a few of the speakers you’ll see at OSMC:
Highlights of Our Speakers Line-up
Soumaya Erradi | Cypress, Playwright or Selenium: choosing the right testing tool
In software development, ensuring application quality and reliability is crucial, with test automation being essential. Choosing the right tool can be overwhelming, with Cypress, Playwright, and Selenium being popular options. The decision depends on your project’s needs and preferred programming language. Soumaya’s OSMC session will demonstrate how these tools work, their pros and cons, and what to consider for specific project requirements.
Christopher Cooney | Observability is Too Expensive!
A decade ago, Observability was hardly recognized. Now, it accounts for 10-30% of operational budgets and is a significant barrier to scaling DevOps strategies. Christopher’s talk will examine the reasons behind the high costs of Observability and the factors leading to this financial challenge. In the second part, he will look at common pitfalls in cost optimization and explore architectural and technical strategies that teams can use to lower their observability expenses.
Dave McAllister | The Subtle Art of Lying with Statistics
Let’s examine how statistics can mislead us into believing falsehoods, often unintentionally. By focusing on recent events, selectively choosing data, and making incorrect assumptions about group sizes, we can draw erroneous conclusions. Dave will demonstrate how graphs and numbers can be used deceptively. His presentation aims to teach you to critically analyze statistics, understand their limitations, and avoid being misled by numbers.
Vanessa Martini | Is Building an Observability Platform with Open Source the Right Choice?
Vanessa Martini | Observability is vital for application health and performance in modern software development. Vanessa’s talk explores using open-source solutions, like Prometheus and Jaeger, for robust observability. She will discuss their business impact, common pitfalls, and how to avoid them. Attendees will learn to build their own observability platform and gain insights into future trends and the role of open source in driving growth and innovation.
And this is just the beginning! We have many more esteemed speakers whose profiles and presentations you can now explore on our website.
Join Us
Whatever your level of experience with open source monitoring, the OSMC is a great place to learn, share and be part of a supportive community.
Register now on the OSMC website to grab your conference ticket and secure your workshop spot. Stay up to date with all the latest information by following us on social media!
We can’t wait to see you there! OSMC 2024 | November 19 – 21, 2024 | Nuremberg, Germany
This workshop, held by Markus Opolka, focuses on OpenTelemetry, a vendor-neutral open-source observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. Since its inception, it has rapidly gained adoption by industry leaders in the observability space.
Learn from Nicolas Schneider how to extend Icinga Web 2 and its modules. You’ll become familiar with the basic structure of a module and understand common pitfalls. From there, the workshop will focus on your specific needs. What’s missing in your monitoring environment? Do you need to implement missing CLI actions? Would you like to provide user documentation within Icinga Web 2? Are you missing a previously removed feature? Let’s optimize monitoring together and deliver the specific features your environment requires.
In this 
Feu Mourek will cover Git fundamentals, including working directory, staging area, repository, and advanced branching strategies. You’ll learn to write effective commit messages, handle remotes, and resolve merge conflicts. They’ll also explore GitLab’s Web IDE, issue boards, and graphs to manage your workflow, track progress, and handle releases smoothly. You’ll master CI/CD by creating pipelines, using templates, and incorporating variables for flexible workflows.
