Commercial observability tools are expensive and complex - but you can build a fast, cost-effective solution yourself! This talk shows how to use ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana to create scalable, DIY monitoring with open source tools.

Robert Hodges serves as CEO at Altinity, an enterprise provider for ClickHouse. Robert has over 30 years of experience with database systems and applications including pre-relational databases such as M204, online SQL transaction processing, Hadoop, and analytics. In the last few years, his work has focused on analytical databases, Kubernetes, and open source. Robert is the founder of the Open Source Analytics Conference (osason.io).