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Cloud-native developers and practitioners gathered from around the world to learn, collaborate, and network at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon North America 2023 between November 6th and 9th at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL—myself included. This wasn’t my first time attending—I’ve been coming to KubeCon since 2016—but it was easily one of the most exciting experiences I’ve had as part of the Cloud Native community.

This is the final article of a three-part series. To start at the beginning, read Part 1: Benefiting from multi-cluster setups requires familiarity with common variations and Part 2: Exploring the facets of a multi-cluster observability strategy. As companies scale software production, they lean on Kubernetes as a crucial container orchestration platform for managing, deploying and ensuring software availability.

Imagine this scenario: your platform appears to have an issue. Maybe it has gone down or maybe it has affected a large volume of users or perhaps just a few of those important ones; either way there is a significant problem with it. Users are complaining and are happy to shout about the platform not working on X (formally Twitter).

ShipHero needed a robust, cost efficient observability platform to support DevOps, customer support, and more. Committed to timely service, ShipHero recognizes that the seamless performance of its software is paramount to customer satisfaction. To maintain this high standard, the development team needs the right data at their fingertips to quickly find and solve problems as they occur.

Now that we’ve had time to decompress from KubeCon, we wanted to do a writeup about our collective experience. Six of us spoke at the conference and Charity participated in a panel, so we included short talk recaps.

CloudFabrix, the Robotic Data Automation Fabric inventor, announced “Data Fabric for Observability” with dynamic Data Ingestion and Automation service (DIA) for the Cisco Observability Platform. You can see the powerful combination in play at Cisco Live Melbourne between December 5-8th, 2023. Cisco epitomizes “Experience as the new Digital Currency” with its observability platform.

Grafana Cloud constantly evolves to include new, cutting-edge features for end-to-end observability. In fact, just last month at ObservabilityCON 2023, we made a number of updates to our fully managed observability platform, including the general availability of Grafana Cloud Application Observability, Grafana SLO, and Adaptive Metrics.