Canada Virtual Workshop | Leveraging OpenTelemetry for Observability & Improving User Experience

Overview

‍This Workshop is for Canadian IT Professionals who want to understand how Splunk Observability (O11y) Cloud and OTel can help standardize infrastructure telemetry data, pinpoint issues, and correlate them with user impact across one's ecosystem.

About Evolutio & Splunk Canada:‍

Evolutio + EPI-USE Canada (a Cisco, Splunk Observability, and SAP-focused Group of companies with offices in Mississauga, Ottawa, and Edmonton) invite you to join us.

In this Virtual Workshop, we will get hands-on to:

- Provision a lab environment, review OpenTelemetry (OTel) fundamentals
- Instrument a software application to emit Metrics
- Ingest those Metrics and associate them on Splunk Observability (O11y) Cloud
- Visualize our extracted Metrics in an actionable way
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‍Date and time: On Wednesday, October 23rd, from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Central)

Virtual Workshop Takeaways

We'll walk away with an understanding of how infrastructure, k8s container, APM, and other telemetry data from disparate systems can be standardized in OTel and correlated with business KPIs to quantify user impact and make informed decisions when incidents arise.

Ultimately, leveraging OpenTelemetry, the data standard put forth by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is the future of observability because it extends across APM vendors in a lightweight, agentless fashion.

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Who is this virtual workshop for:‍

- Network Engineers
- DevOps
- Applications/ Monitoring
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Software Engineering & Tools teams
- Infrastructure engineering

Teams who are trying to navigate their Observability practice across hybrid environments (mix of on-prem and cloud) and multi-cloud environments (across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other hyperscalers) will get value from this workshop.

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Agenda (Eastern):

2:00 pm
Welcome and introductions to the Evolutio and Splunk teams

2:15 pm
Review of OTel Signals (MELT Framework), Instrumentation, and why it matters for Observability & user experience

2:45 pm
Instructor-led training and workshop walking through exploring OpenTelemetry

3:45 pm
Wrap-up & key takeaways

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We look forward to you joining us to explore a methodology for tackling OpenTelemetry's potential at your organization.

Presenter

Author

Forrest Smietankski

Full Stack Observability Architect, USA, Evolutio

Forrest joined Evolutio in 2022 as a Consultant in the Observability practice area, bringing a decade of experience in software engineering, cloud architectures, and solving large scale enterprise issues. Wearing multiple hats during a long career at Liberty Mutual; Forrest brings financial and insurance industry experience to Evolutio customers. Forrest loves working with customers on solving complex problems, and is excited to collaborate with the other Evolutio practice areas, particularly in DevOps/ Automation and data science by applying ML and AI models to customer problems.

Abe Albee

Director, Sales

Before joining Evolutio, Abe spent over ten years working in many areas of the banking and finance industry. While in different levels of leadership at both large corporate settings and small financials, much of his time was spent focused around making improvements to client experience and finding solutions to operational inefficiencies.

During the later stage of his career, while overseeing multiple departments of the bank, Abe’s focus shifted to understanding the correlation between finding better ways of doing things, cultural change management, and how the two play a role in end-user experience. That dedication to continuous improvement is what eventually attracted Abe to the world of technical innovation at Evolutio.

In his present role, Abe enjoys the opportunity to help organizations rethink how they solve problems. Through the use of specific methodology and best practices, Abe helps companies be more equipped to solve the problems of their future. Abe’s passions outside of Evolutio revolve around maximizing his time with family and friends and watching his four children learn and grow.

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