Virtual Workshop | Leveraging OpenTelemetry for Observability & Improving User Experience

Overview

‍This Workshop is for 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.

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 Tuesday, October 22nd, from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Central)

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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.

Agenda (Central):

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.

Laura Vetter

CTO & Co-founder, USA, Evolutio

Laura Vetter is a subject matter expert in methodology and tooling for Monitoring, SRE, and Observability, namely with Cisco Observability, Splunk, AppDynamics, and other Performance Monitoring Tools in the competitive landscape. She is also well-versed in monitoring global SAP ERP landscapes and works with DevOps teams on governance for more secure and quality software deployments. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working in IT Ops and leading large teams, she is exceptionally skilled in understanding how those tools can meet the visibility needs of application-driven, Fortune 500 organizations.

As a CTO and technology transformation visionary, Laura leads strategy for alerting and business-relevant dashboarding demands at scale. She leads a team that helps clients roadmap an observability strategy to mature along the curve, wherever they are in the journey.