CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent

System Inspection and Observability 2.0: AD and RCA
2025-02-04, 16:00–16:50, B.Con (Overflow + Main)

Grafana alone is nice, but might be a bit meaningless if one has no Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis. How do we do our data actionable and proactive?


Arguably, AD (Anomaly Detection) and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) activities in fact are part of configuration management discipline. AD/RCA and traditional configuration management niches are tightly coupled together because one is essentially guiding another. In this presentation will be demonstrated an early prototype of Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis tooling and an example integration with a configuration management system (Ansible).

Observability 1.0 is when the metrics are context-less and actions are reactive. Time to move to Observability 2.0, to proactive data.

Bo Maryniuk has more than 25 years experience driving Open Source projects and currently works as Principal Software Engineer in Automotive industry at e.solutions GmbH, Germany.