Éamon is a Senior Principal Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he builds and maintains internal and external environments, builds out advanced workshops, provides input on product use-cases and acts as a subject matter expert in some specific areas.

Éamon has done the full rounds of customer-facing tech roles over the years: Support, Education/Training, Professional Services, Solutions Engineering and now Field Engineering, giving him tons of customer insights and viewpoints he uses to fuel his work.

Éamon has a background in infrastructure, having worked at VMware for ~8 years before migrating to Pivotal and ultimately to Grafana Labs. Originally hailing from Ireland, he has been living in California since 2014.

Presentations

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To accrue additional technical debt, turn to page 52! A choose-your-own-adventure system design case study.

Designing complex, integrated systems is a challenge with so many products available in the cloud native open source world. This talk aims to discuss a team’s recent experience building out a new system, and the choices made to build an automatable, scalable, and stable environment.This talk will be delivered in a “choose your own adventure” format, where we discuss the different OSS options that were considered and their implementation. As we work with the audience through different options, we will encounter the benefits/consequences of our choices.

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A Series of Fortunate Invents - An Open-Source Tour Of Solutions For Scaling Prometheus

What do you do once you’ve bumped up against one or more of Prometheus' limitations?

- Outgrown what a single instance can handle
- Many separate instances and need a global view
- Need longer retention of your metric series
- Require multi-tenancy
- Need better HA/resiliency

The classic “It Depends.” applies here.

Old, incorrect or false information online can make this even harder.

Come step through the popular OSS options for scaling Prometheus, and gain guidance on the next stage of your observability journey!

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