Observability at tech events
34 write-ups · 25 events · 2023–2026
This page collects talks and demos on observability: OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces and the vendor tools around them. The conferences and meetups I attend keep returning to rolling out telemetry at scale, how AI workloads change monitoring, and what Elastic, Datadog, ClickHouse and community groups each offer for the same problems.
2026
30 Sept 2026 · OTEL Meetup; What is IT, really? · Amsterdam
Dash0 OTel Meetup Amsterdam: Weaver, Packaging, GoDash0's OTel meetup at Mindspace Dam: OpenTelemetry Weaver, the Packaging SIG, Go compile-time instrumentation and a Cake & Candles hands-on lab.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Grafana Labs OTel Amsterdam: Community, Networking, and the People Behind the CodeBeyond the slides: the community connections at the Grafana Labs OpenTelemetry event in Amsterdam — group photos, coffee breaks, and conversations that matter.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale: Grafana Labs Amsterdam RecapGrafana Labs OpenTelemetry Amsterdam recap: Ted Young on rollouts, Austin Parker on Observability IRL, Hierarchy of Observability.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Ted and Ed's Hierarchy of Observability NeedsMaslow's Hierarchy for observability: infrastructure visibility at the base, custom logic at the top. Build observability maturity layer by layer.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Maintaining Everything Forever: The Hidden Cost of Observability at ScaleBeyond deployment, the hidden cost of observability: complexity at scale, tracking debt, and costs that grow faster than you can control.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Observability IRL: What Fire Lookout Towers Teach Us About Software MonitoringAustin Parker's 'Observability IRL' talk at Grafana Labs draws a direct parallel between 1930s fire lookout towers and modern software observability.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Scaling OpenTelemetry with Ted Young (Grafana Labs)Ted Young, OpenTelemetry co-founder, on the four focus areas that will define OTel's future: clients, stability, AI, and edge.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Installing Everything by Hand Sucks: The Automation Imperative for OpenTelemetryThe pain of manual OpenTelemetry setup and why a one-click deployment experience is the key to adoption at scale.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Why I Am Dusty: Burning Man, Art Installations, and ObservabilityTed Young's 'Why I am dusty' talk: linking a 30-foot Burning Man art tower to building observable software systems.
21 May 2026 · Who's Watching the Agents? · Amsterdam
Who's Watching the Agents? AI Observability Meetup atSRE NL and Coralogix hosted 'Who's Watching the Agents?' at Miro's Amsterdam office — covering AI-powered observability, MCP servers for telemetry, custom.
May 2026 · AgentOps in Production hands-on lab (Red Hat Summit 2026) · Atlanta
AgentOps in Production: Hands-On Lab at Red Hat Summit 2026Inside the AgentOps lab at Red Hat Summit 2026. End-to-end agentic observability with Red Hat AI, with demos from Roberto Carratala and Taylor Smith.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Events · Amsterdam
KubeCon EU 2026 Co-located Day: Talks and SlidesThe talks I sat in on at KubeCon Europe 2026's co-located day: golden paths, zero-day prep, backend-first IDPs, OpenTelemetry and a $10,000 Argo CD mistake.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
People of KubeCon Europe 2026: Hallway InterviewsFifteen short hallway interviews from KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: contributors, a co-chair, observability vendors and a cluster in a cat carrier.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
KubeCon Europe 2026 Recap: My Week in PhotosKubeCon Europe 2026 in photos: co-located days, two Kubernetes Recipes book signings, my multi-tenant GPU talk on OpenShift AI, and the keynote hall.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 book signings (Signal Overflow and vCluster booth) · Amsterdam
Kubernetes Recipes Book Signing at KubeCon Europe 2026Meet Luca Berton at two Kubernetes Recipes book signing events during KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. Get your signed copy at the Apress and Packt booths.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
Rootly at KubeCon EU 2026: AI SRE Agents That Go On-CallMet JJ Tang, co-founder and CEO of Rootly, at KubeCon EU 2026 Amsterdam. AI SRE platform that triages incidents automatically, only paging humans when.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Master of Ceremonies at Cloud Native Rejekts 2026What it takes to MC Cloud Native Rejekts — the 300-person unconference that sets the tone for KubeCon week in Amsterdam.
17 Feb 2026 · SRE NL: What Your Dashboards and Your Brain Won't Tell You · Amsterdam
SRE NL at Elastic: OpenTelemetry and Your Brain's BiasesSRE NL's 'What Your Dashboards and Your Brain Won't Tell You' at Elastic Amsterdam: an OpenTelemetry demo, then the cognitive biases behind bad incidents.
12 Feb 2026 · OpenClaw Builders Community | AMS · Amsterdam
OpenClaw Builders Community at AI House AmsterdamOpenClaw builders at AI House Amsterdam: a Copilot-to-Autopilot panel, demos on cloud apps, WhatsApp secrets and agent memory, and a Clawdbot + OTEL PR.
2025
7 Nov 2025 · SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4 · Amsterdam
SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4: Observability, MCP, ClickStackNotes from SREday Amsterdam, 7 November 2025: decoupled observability, ClickStack, platform engineering for AI, securing MCP servers and Azure automation.
30 Oct 2025 · ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future · Amsterdam
ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future RecapElasticON Amsterdam 2025 at the Beurs van Berlage: the agenda, AWS and Google Cloud sessions, TVH's observability road, and A-CORN filtered vector search.
30 Oct 2025 · SRE NL meetup (Learning from Incidents) · Amsterdam
SRE NL Amsterdam 2025: Learning from IncidentsSRE NL at Datadog Amsterdam, October 2025: Busra Koken on why people, not systems, learn from incidents, then SRE culture and why engineers skip postmortems.
28 Oct 2025 · ClickHouse Open House Amsterdam · Amsterdam
ClickHouse Open House Amsterdam 2025: Picnic and LangfuseClickHouse Open House Amsterdam 2025: the 30 PB keynote, lightweight updates, ClickStack, Picnic's Grafana row policies and Langfuse's move off Postgres.
23 Oct 2025 · Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community Group meetups (23 Oct and 15 Dec 2025) · Amsterdam
Dutch Cloud Native & AI: Spegel and Dash0 Meetups 2025Philip Laine on Spegel, the stateless P2P image mirror, then Dash0's December meetup: Kasper Borg Nissen on OpenTelemetry and a Rust Kafka alternative.
24 Sept 2025 · Grafana & Friends Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Grafana & Friends Amsterdam 2025: Kafka in GrafanaGrafana & Friends Amsterdam, 24 September 2025: community plugins, plugin signature levels and a live demo of the Kafka data source plugin in Grafana Explore.
18 Jun 2025 · DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025: OpenTelemetry and OpenSSFDevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025 in photos: an OpenTelemetry adoption story, OpenSSF supply chain practices, trust-driven teams, and Identity Week Europe.
4 Jun 2025 · Platform Engineering MeetUp & BBQ · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering BBQ Amsterdam 2025: ObservabilityPlatform Engineering Amsterdam's summer meetup and BBQ, June 2025: SUSE on observability from ice age to AI, and a fintech platform startup story.
24 Apr 2025 · Celebrating 10 years of K8s · Amsterdam
KubeHound and 10 Years of K8s at Datadog AmsterdamNotes from the Kubernetes 10 years meetup at the Datadog office in Amsterdam (24 April 2025): KubeHound attack graphs, an observability talk and SRE.
27 Mar 2025 · OpenTelemetry with Elastic · Amsterdam
OpenTelemetry with Elastic Meetup, Amsterdam 2025Notes from Elastic's OpenTelemetry meetup in Amsterdam: EDOT, the OTel Operator and Kibana demo, Collibra's collector pipeline and a Kafka log design.
2024
25 Nov 2024 · Elastic Meetup Amsterdam and ElasticON Amsterdam 2024 · Amsterdam
Elastic Meetup and ElasticON Amsterdam 2024: BBQ and int8Two Elastic days in Amsterdam, November 2024: Steve Kearns on int8 and BBQ, Kaufland's search upgrade lessons, Devoteam on ECE, then ElasticON.
25 Sept 2024 · AI Tinkerers Amsterdam (September and November 2024 editions) · Amsterdam
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam 2024: Groq, Fiberplane and NebiusTwo AI Tinkerers Amsterdam demo nights from autumn 2024: Fiberplane's AI API testing, Groq-powered apps, an AI-native React compiler and Nebius AI Studio.
18 Jul 2024 · Mindstone AI Meetup Amsterdam and Datadog User Group Benelux GenAI Meetup (2024) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam GenAI Meetups, Summer 2024: LangWatch to BedrockTwo Amsterdam GenAI meetups from summer 2024: LangWatch, STRUCK and Pandria at Mindstone, then AWS Bedrock, Cloutive and Datadog LLM Observability.
3 Jul 2024 · Grafana & Friends Amsterdam Summer Meetup · Amsterdam
Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry and Backstage: Meetup 2024Notes from Grafana & Friends Amsterdam on 3 July 2024: a Tempo and OpenTelemetry migration tracked with Backstage, plus Grafana's move to Scenes.
2023
13 Jul 2023 · Ansible Automates London 2023 · London
Ansible Automates London 2023: Lightspeed and EDAMy notes from Ansible Automates London 2023 at CodeNode: the ROI keynote, a live Lightspeed demo, Event-Driven Ansible rulebooks, Builder 3.0 and mesh.