Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Creating Useful Dashboards with
Grafana
*Presenter:* Timo Tijhof
*Date:* January 13, 2016
*Time: *21:30 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Timo+Tech+Talk&iso=20160113T2130&p1=1440&ah=1>
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlL6UoRUQAM>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
*Summary: *Over the past two years Timo has worked a
lot with our metric
infrastructure and the various visualisation tools in use at Wikimedia. The
aim of this talk is to help you create better dashboards with Grafana. Timo
will discuss the various metric types we have, how they are gathered in our
software environments, and how you can use Graphite to query this data. He
will also share lessons learned in the Performance Team using real world
examples.
I have occasionally watched some of these talks on YouTube,
and common problems were that a) at the start of the talk
the presenter had to figure out how to focus on the screen
he wanted to share and b) the audio was abysmal in that
sometimes built-in microphones were used and/or the audio
sounded like it was passed through several speaker/micro-
phone loops, i. e. that not the presenter's microphone was
recorded (directly).
It would be nice if these glitches could be resolved with
each presenter before their (live) talk in a "sound check",
so that they can concentrate on their presentation and the
viewers/listeners on its content. This won't get rid of the
door slammers at WMF, but greatly improve the experience in
between.
Tim