Nishant Modak, Founder & CEO at Last9, is giving a talk at Cloud Native Rejekts Chicago on Build your own APM instead of buying one! — Saturday, Nov 4, 10:15 AM, Room 1.
What you’ll learn
- Why commercial APM keeps disappointing — the cost curve, the data firehose you can’t shape, and the proprietary lock-in that comes with it.
- OpenAPM as the alternative — composing Grafana, Prometheus, and Jaeger into a monitoring stack that holds its own against the big-name vendors at a fraction of the cost.
- MELT, properly understood — what Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces each actually buy you, and why the metric type you pick matters more than the tool you pick.
- Minimum Viable Monitoring — focused dashboards with PromQL that surface the signal you need without drowning you in panels.
Observability is an iterative practice, not a procurement decision. Come trade notes.
