DevOpsDays Halifax

Syed Usman Ahmad

Usman is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.

He has over 15 years of experience in IT and over 10 years in Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc.

He is an active international public speaker participating in multiple conferences and events.

In his free time, Usman likes to spend time with his family, go out on occasional traveling and play games or read comics.


Sessions

08-21
14:30
10min
The complete Observability stack for your Web applications
Syed Usman Ahmad

Modern-day web applications play a critical role in powering dynamic and interactive websites, whether they are running locally or in a containerized environment. However, ensuring that these applications run smoothly and perform optimally can be a challenging task. This is where Grafana, a powerful observability platform, comes in handy.

In this talk, you will get a demo of the PHP WordPress application and explore how Grafana can provide valuable insights and observability for both frontend and backend components to help developers gain a deeper understanding of their application's behavior and performance.

We will discuss various aspects of observability, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, and demonstrate how Grafana can be leveraged to achieve comprehensive observability for PHP web applications.

For some of the audience, it will be an introduction but for experienced users, it will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about utilizing advanced options to effectively extract and represent meaningful metrics.

We are also looking forward to hear your questions, suggestions, and feedback.!

Monitoring and Observability
Scotiabank Lecture Hall
08-22
13:15
30min
Efficient Cloud Application Monitoring with Grafana API Integration
Syed Usman Ahmad

Grafana is a popular open-source monitoring tool, but users often cannot utilize its full potential to monitor or visualize data efficiently.

In this talk, we will demonstrate an example of how to monitor your application running in the cloud using the Grafana API integration plugin. Later, we see more advanced features to get the key metrics to better observability.

It will be an introduction to the Dashboards, and also an excellent opportunity to learn more about the advanced features, including troubleshooting & debugging.

join us to learn more about Grafana dashboards, community contributions and share your feedback and suggestions!

Monitoring and Observability
Scotiabank Lecture Hall