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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Planet-Scale Dashboards

Robert Lehmann

Stop manually copying dashboards for new microservices. Google solved this at a massive scale. Learn how dynamic service discovery enables automatic, context-aware observability.

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#1 about 3 min

Challenges of manual observability setups during service outages

The difficulties of configuring and utilizing manual monitoring tools while attempting to resolve active production incidents.

#2 about 3 min

Building global monitoring solutions within a monorepo architecture

How global data centers and single-repository structures shape the development of internal observability platforms.

#3 about 3 min

Tackling dashboard divergence across independent microservices

The operational impact and troubleshooting difficulties that arise when different service teams configure metrics independently.

#4 about 4 min

Standardizing reusable dashboards with template variables and dimensions

Leveraging dimension parameters to maintain consistency and establish deterministic links across different service instances.

#5 about 3 min

Filtering dashboard noise for context-specific service observability

The challenge of overwhelming metric views when reusing template files across distinct technological stacks.

#6 about 4 min

Automating dashboard relevance through service discovery and traits

Injecting scope contexts and dynamically discovering application settings to surface relevant metric displays automatically.

#7 about 2 min

Managing heterogeneous architecture entities using generic scope types

Organizing distinct infrastructural components like databases and machine learning models into unified monitoring namespaces.

#8 about 4 min

Limitations of infrastructure and dashboards as code approaches

Why declarative configuration files often fall out of sync with actual running application metrics.

#9 about 4 min

Handling massive global scale using pre-aggregation and graph variants

Swapping metric queries dynamically based on current filtering dimensions to maintain fast performance globally.

#10 about 2 min

Leveraging scope topology for systemic incident troubleshooting

Connecting related application tiers to intuitively guide operating teams through dependent services during an outage.

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