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# Planet-Scale Dashboards


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 17:30–18:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 7
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** cloud, monitoring, observability, scalability

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1618-planet-scale-dashboards)

## Description

Google runs hundreds of thousands of services globally, often interdependent and with shared concerns.  At that scale, classical Federated Observability — a platform team providing foundations and/or building blocks for each team to assemble on their own — does not scale anymore.

In this talk, we will demonstrate how Google managed to cut toil dramatically while providing best-in-class monitoring out-of-the-box:

- What are the unique circumstances that contributed to Google’s scaling problem?
- A data model for re-usable dashboards
- Impact on both configuration overhead and incident response
- Looking beyond dashboards, how such re-use can be facilitated in the broader observability space

Robert will draw on Google’s research paper on Planet-Scale Dashboards (to be published mid 2025) and more than a decade of experience in SRE.

## Speaker

### [Robert Lehmann](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@robert-lehmann)

Staff SRE, Google


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