API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: Full Schedule

1:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (CloudX): O11y Like a B.O.S.S - The Modern Observability Stack

Wednesday September 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT

Noam Levy, groundcover, Field CTO

Observability isn’t just about collecting metrics, events, logs, and traces - it’s about how we architect the stack to handle them efficiently and effectively.
Traditional SaaS-based observability solutions come with major challenges: unpredictable costs, fragmented tooling, and vendor lock-in.
In this session, we’ll introduce the B.O.S.S paradigm - Bring your own cloud, One-stop shop, Standardized, and Self-reliant - outlining a modern approach to observability that prioritizes cost efficiency, data sovereignty, open standards, and next-generation technologies like eBPF.
We’ll discuss real-world applications, common pitfalls, and how this paradigm is shaping the future of cloud-native observability.

Speakers

Noam Levy

Field CTO, groundcover

Noam Levy is the Field CTO and a founding engineer at groundcover, focused on how we approach cloud-native observability. Originally a web developer, he spent the past decade growing into a platform engineer and a solution architect.Noam works closely with customers to better understand... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks CloudX, Service Monitoring and Observability (CloudX), SRE / DevOps and Platform Engineering (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PDT

PRO Session (CloudX): Unlocking Cloud Data Insights with Grafana's API Monitoring

Thursday September 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Syed Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs, Staff Developer Advocate

Grafana is a popular open-source monitoring tool, but often, new users are unable to utilize its full potential to efficiently monitor or visualize data.

In this talk, we will demonstrate an example of how to monitor your application running in the Cloud via API using the Grafana Infinity Plugin. Later, we see more advanced features to get key metrics for 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!

Speakers

Syed Usman Ahmad

Staff Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

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 in Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX