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IT monitoring has changed dramatically over the past 20 years.Tools have evolved. Architectures have become more complex. Expectations around performance, availability, and transparency have increased. What hasn’t changed?The need for honest conversations, real-world experience, and a community that shares knowledge. 20 Years Monitoring Excellence – A Special Anniversary Edition OSMC is the place where exactly that happens: 20 years of our fantastic community 20 years of knowledge sharing 20...
On September 29 & 30 DevOpsDays Berlin 2026 takes place, and it’s the perfect time to get involved! Whether you want to speak, attend, or support the community, here’s a quick look at what’s open right now. Share your talk DevOpsDays Berlin 2026 is looking for speakers ready to share their insights, experiences, and stories with the community. Whether you’re an experienced presenter or considering your very first talk, your perspective matters! If you’re thinking about submitting a talk...
Are we overcomplicating alerting? And why does a system designed to notify us when things go wrong so often become part of the problem itself? These questions immediately came to mind when I saw Colin Douch's Talk on the OSMC 2025 program. With experience as former Tech Lead of the Observability team at Cloudflare how is now at DuckDuckGo, he brought firsthand insight into the challenges of modern alert management. Colin introduced Onotify, an alternative to Prometheus Alertmanager. As someone...
Are you already busy with conferences or other IT events this year? If there’s still space in your timetable I would like to present an awesome speaking opportunity. It’s at the Open Tech Day 2026 focussing on software-defined storage. Open Tech Day 2026 is about... ... the next evolution of software-defined storage. As data volumes keep exploding, we’ll take a close look at modern, resilient, and scalable storage architectures built on open source. Expect deep technical insights into...
From Hype to Reality How many of you actually have OpenTelemetry in production right now? When Diana Todea asked this during her session at OSMC 2025, the lack of hands in the room proved her point. There is still a huge gap between the popularity of a project and its actual implementation. As a Developer Experience Engineer, Diana didn't just talk about the tech. She shared her "serendipity journey" that led her from building the first OTel exams to founding the Romanian localization group....
As part of the organizing-team, we're excited to announce DevOpsDays Berlin will be taking place this year again. Save the date for September 29 & 30 as the DevOps community will meet again for two days of inspiration, ideas and networking together. Call for Papers To create a fantastic and insightful program we're currently looking for speakers presenting their ideas. The Call for Papers is now officially open!Whether you’re a seasoned speaker or thinking about giving your very first...
Position your brand where open source monitoring decisions are made! This year, from November 17-19, OSMC celebrates 20 years monitoring excellence – two decades of bringing together the people who design, operate, and decide on modern open source monitoring and observability solutions. OSMC is not a mass event. It is a highly focused conference with over 250 experienced IT professionals, engineers, managers, and decision-makers who actively evaluate tools, best practices, and strategies for...
stackconf 2026 brings together the people who build, run, and evolve modern IT infrastructures – not for buzzwords, but for real-world solutions, open discussions, and shared curiosity. For two days, cloud native infrastructure solutions take center stage, driven by those who live it every day. Sponsoring stackconf means being present in a setting where technology, experience, and long-term thinking take priority. The Audience The stackconf audience is international, diverse, and highly...
Are you paying for metrics you never actually use? And how many of your alerting rules are silently broken? These questions caught my attention when I saw Roman Khavronenko's talk in the OSMC 2025 program. As someone who's been working with monitoring systems, I was eager to learn how to make monitoring more efficient and cost-effective. Introducing the Speaker and the Topic At OSMC 2025, Roman Khavronenko from VictoriaMetrics presented his talk focused on a critical but often overlooked...
It’s finally time! The official schedule for stackconf 2026 is online. On April 28 & 29, we’ll be back in Munich with two days packed full of open source engineering, infrastructure, cloud-native tech, and everything in between. If you’ve been waiting to see what we’ve been preparing for this year, here’s your first preview. A Quick Look at What Awaits You Our program brings together experts from across the open source landscape, digging into practical challenges, bold ideas, and the...
Great news! The stackconf website has just been updated – and the first speakers for stackconf 2026 are confirmed!Get ready for exciting talks, new ideas, and lots of open source inspiration when we meet again in Munich. Topics & Speakers Our first speakers offer an early glimpse of what stackconf 2026 will be about. Their talks highlight some of the most important themes currently shaping the open source world. A major focus lies on how AI models can be run and managed more efficiently in...
Last week, we hosted the Open Source Monitoring Conference – the 19th edition already. Sophia, Alvar, and Dirk have summarized the single conference days in separate blogposts: Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3. Today, you’ll get a special insight about what happened at OSMC behind the scenes and how our crew made the event happen. Markus and Lukas... ... (the main organizers) spent months preparing for the event. They organized the conference venue and everything related to the speakers, participants...