SREcon22 Americas - Exemplars in Practice: Finding the Needle in Your Observability Haystack 

SREcon22 Americas - Exemplars in Practice: Finding the Needle in Your Observability Haystack
Gibbs Cullen, Chronosphere
A common desire among SREs is to have the ability to quickly jump between different data types. For example, being able to jump from a dashboard showing a metric to the distributed traces that the metric represents. Vendors have come up with various proprietary approaches to meet this need with varying degrees of success, but open-source solutions have started to gravitate towards the idea of exemplars to provide a common solution to this problem.
In this talk, Gibbs will give an introduction to exemplars and the open-source tracing landscape (e.g. OpenTelemetry), and will discuss how exemplars give SREs a straightforward path to jump from a metric on a dashboard to a trace related to that metric. She will explore some limitations around exemplars, and present an alternative method for linking metrics and distributed traces-ultimately making "finding the needle in the observability haystack" easier and more efficient for SREs.
Gibbs Cullen is a developer advocate at Chronosphere and makes it possible for the community to understand the concepts behind Prometheus and using M3 as a long term storage, in addition to helping the community with best practices in alerting, monitoring and configuring their deployment of Prometheus and M3 in Kubernetes. Prior to Chronosphere she was a product manager on the AWS Data Lab team.
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