08-21, 14:30–14:40 (America/Halifax), Scotiabank Lecture Hall
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.!
The structure is as follows:
- Basic Intro to modern Web applications
- Performance and Monitoring Challenges
- Intro to Observability and Grafana
- Deep dive into Grafana tools
- Realtime demo of a web application
- Understanding different plugins, data sources and panels
- Wrap-up
The audience will get the following takeaways:
- Open Source Monitirng tool
- Open Source Plugin Integrations
- How to collect useful metrics and data
- Contribution to the code for new use-cases
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.