Telemetry is Not Having to Hope - Owen Diel, Grafana Labs
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 01/11/2021

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Telemetry is Not Having to Hope - Owen Diel, Grafana Labs

Telemetry isn't new, so why is it so important now? In this nontechnical talk, Owen reflects on his unorthodox journey into software, how open source enabled him, and what monitoring means in the face of ever increasing complexity. In addition to the importance of monitoring and open source, Owen describes its natural progression from a reactive tool for managing complexity to a proactive tool for incentivizing and evaluating changes. The increasing scope of monitoring is only part of its success: it is also driven by the external growth of systems it need watch. Finally, Owen elaborates how Prometheus simplifies external complexity for both technical and organizational benefit.