DevOpsDays Halifax

Nightmares to Insights: Translating 30 Developer Questions into Actionable Observability Queries
2024-08-21 , Scotiabank Lecture Hall

It's 2 am, production systems are down, and you are staring at a mountain of logs - that you did not write- and are asked to debug what is wrong? A common scenario many engineers face. In this talk we walk you through 30 natural questions developers have that will be translated to actual queries that you can run on your observability data. This talk will arm you with practical tips for debugging a production system.


It's 2 am, production systems are down, and you are staring at a mountain of logs - that you did not write- and are asked to debug what is wrong? A common scenario many engineers face. In this talk we walk you through 30 natural questions developers have that will be translated to actual queries that you can run on your observability data. This talk will arm you with practical tips for debugging a production system.

Kunal Nawale is a Founder/CEO of SigLens. Previously he worked as Observability Architect at Salesforce responsible for providing monitoring solutions to 10,000+ salesforce engineers. Kunal has spent 20+ years in software development. He has been mentoring young engineers for the past 12+ years. Kunal did his Bachelors from University of Pune, and M.S. from UMass Lowell, USA