\r\nBy utilizing the Checkmk Ansible Collection, administrators can effortlessly automate their monitoring environment, leveraging the inherent efficiency of Ansible.
\r\nThis Ansible collection is the result of collaborative efforts from a group of community members who shared a common goal\u2014to seamlessly integrate Checkmk with Ansible. We are proud to say that this project has now evolved into a valuable tool for streamlined monitoring processes.
\r\nIn this session, we will take you through the developmental journey of this integration. We will demonstrate how you can effectively harness the capabilities of Ansible to enhance monitoring convenience and optimize your overall workflow.", "description": "By the end of this session, you'll be ready to automate your monitoring with Checkmk Ansible Collection.
\r\nJoin us to:\r\n * Discover the power of Checkmk and Ansible for your monitoring needs.\r\n * Master the setup of a Checkmk server, agent deployment, and site configuration.\r\n * Learn how the Checkmk Ansible Collection was built through community collaboration.\r\n * Uncover the challenges we overcame during development.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"id": 398, "code": "GCVYMY", "public_name": "Lars Getwan", "biography": "After studying IT at the Berufsakademie Stuttgart, I was working with different monitoring tools for different companies since 1998.
\r\nIn 2013, I fell in love with the open source monitoring solution _Checkmk_ and kept working with it ever since. In 2021, I had the chance to join the company itself as a consultant.
\r\nTogether with 2 colleagues and a lot of help from the open source community, I created the Checkmk Ansible collection.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"id": 453, "guid": "8c4ae6c0-5feb-55af-824f-fa184f67bb3e", "logo": "/media/2024/submissions/PY3NPY/ara-with-icon_BLtS6GQ.png", "date": "2024-02-05T15:55:00+01:00", "start": "15:55", "duration": "00:50", "room": "B.3.039", "slug": "2024-453-putting-ansible-metrics-in-prometheus-because-why-not----", "url": "https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/2024/talk/PY3NPY/", "title": "Putting Ansible metrics in Prometheus because why not \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af", "subtitle": "", "track": "Ansible", "type": "Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday", "language": "en", "abstract": "With thousands of available plugins, Ansible automates and orchestrates configuration management, application deployment as well as cloud, network, security and server infrastructure.\r\n\r\nBeyond these typical scenarios, it can be a great abstraction layer to interface or glue different tools and systems together.\r\n\r\nGiven this wide range of use cases and the many ways they can all go wrong differently dozens or thousands of times a day, it would be interesting and useful to have detailed and granular metrics about individual playbooks, hosts and tasks.\r\n\r\nWe could spot improvements, regressions, spikes and bottlenecks in Grafana to make playbooks run better and faster.\r\nIf unexpected changes or failures happen, we could notify someone or something about it with Alertmanager.\r\n\r\nIn this talk we'll explain and show \"why not\" using an implementation that puts Ansible metrics in Prometheus using ARA Records Ansible.\r\n\r\nAt time of writing, it kind of works and puts many pieces of the puzzle together but doesn't quite use the right approach. It turns out putting historical metrics in Prometheus is not that simple.\r\n\r\nWe might just find out how to do it together if you are interested in the use case !", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"id": 215, "code": "SC3YWZ", "public_name": "David Moreau-Simard", "biography": "David is an open source enthusiast and contributor to projects like OpenStack, Ansible, Fedora and CentOS.\r\n\r\niWeb, Ubisoft and RedHat alumni doing bare metal and clouds, Dev/Ops, SRE, CI/CD and everything in between.\r\n\r\nHe likes simplicity and makes things work.", "answers": []}, {"id": 449, "code": "H8QWXJ", "public_name": "Daniel Mellado", "biography": "Daniel is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He\u2019s been involved in several networking projects, such as Kuryr-Kubernetes (a CNI plugin which enables native Neutron-based networking in Kubernetes), MetalLB and recently he\u2019s been tackling Edge, Telco NFV and Observability use cases. He\u2019s been a PTL (Project Team Lead) at some projects in OpenStack, a member of the Kubernetes SIG Group and part of the panel for the Leveraging Containers and OpenStack. He's also acting as the main coordinator for the Fedora eBPF-sig-group.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"id": 441, "guid": "12bcda8f-60b3-5815-8319-501d7144a99e", "logo": "/media/2024/submissions/KULBUS/o11y_data_analytics_cover_image_VpnCiBZ.png", "date": "2024-02-05T16:45:00+01:00", "start": "16:45", "duration": "00:25", "room": "B.3.039", "slug": "2024-441-observability-it-s-a-data-analytics-problem-you-fool-", "url": "https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/2024/talk/KULBUS/", "title": "Observability? It's a Data Analytics Problem, You Fool!", "subtitle": "", "track": "Observability", "type": "Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday", "language": "en", "abstract": "We all know logs, metrics and traces, the \u201cthree pillars of observability\u201d. We\u2019ve been told that by collecting them we\u2019d gain observability into our systems, right? WRONG! \r\n\r\nObservability is NOT logs+metrics+traces. You can diligently collect these signals and still find yourself without the required observability to detect and root-cause during a major outage or incident. Even expanding to four, six or more ''pillars'' doesn\u2019t help. We need a paradigm shift. Observability is actually a data analytics problem.\r\n\r\nIn this inspiring and thought provoking talk, Horovits will introduce the data analytics approach, together with practical measures that will guide you in gaining real observability into your system and in getting the insights you need, when you need them. 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The builtin crypto implementation is spread across several source files and is closely interconnected with both the ZeroMQ and TCP transports. Rather than insert a new crypto backend alongside the existing crypto implementation at each point across the several files, the new crypto backend uses a new, simpler design, mainly because mTLS can be used out of the box in contrast to custom RSA key management, trust on first use, static auth token seed (for reals), etc. Because of the close mixing of transport and crypto code, the opportunity was taken to introduce WebSockets as a new transport as well. Great, so what about post quantum crypto? 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