Observability Professionals: Build Resilience and Visibility with These .conf25 Sessions

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If you're focused on performance, availability, and full-stack visibility, the Observability track at .conf25 has what you need. From real-world incident response strategies to open telemetry, AIOps, and infrastructure monitoring, these sessions will help you detect problems faster and resolve them smarter.

To help you navigate the catalog, we’ve curated a handful of standout sessions across experience levels and products that observability practitioners won’t want to miss.

Note: Some sessions are hands-on and will not be recorded. You see a note under the listing for the ones this pertains to. 

Novice-Level Sessions: Establish the Building Blocks

OBS1814 – Next-Gen Observability for N-Tier Apps with Splunk AppDynamics
Tuesday, Sep 9 | 12:30–1:00 PM EDT
Frustrated with responding to alerts from applications without business context? Do you wish you could align your organization from business goals to performance SLO/SLIs and troubleshooting? Learn about the latest advances in Splunk AppDynamics that enable you to get full-stack observability across digital experience, application, database, and LLM monitoring.

OBS1539 - Best Practices for Splunk ITSI: Configuration, Administration, and Usage
Tuesday, Sep 9 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
As seasoned Splunk ITSI experts, we've amassed best practices for optimal configuration. In this session, we'll share insights for designing KPIs, services, episodes, and AI/ML to maximize end-user experience. Whether new or experienced, you'll gain skills to use right away.

OBS1528 - AI in Observability
Wednesday, Sep 10 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
Quickly resolving issues makes the difference between seamless customer experiences and interruptions. In this session, you’ll discover how Splunk O11y Cloud—augmented by Agentic AI—can root-cause incidents. You’ll see live o11y alerts flow into ITSI and use ITSI to intelligently correlate these signals with other data. Finally, you’ll see how combining O11y Cloud’s agentic AI with ITSI’s AI-driven analytics helps to ensure your critical applications stay available, performant, and resilient.

Note: This is an Interactive Workshop Session. Please bring your own laptop to dive into product use cases, walk through real scenarios and demo as you go. Attendance is capped based on content and sessions will not be recorded.

Intermediate Sessions: Expand and Connect Your Practice

OBS1614 - The Observability Adventure: Tracking User Journeys and Business Processes Like a Pro
Tuesday, Sep 9 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Your users are on an epic journey through your app, facing slow load times and complex processes. Meanwhile, your business runs on a maze of microservices, integrations, and traditional apps. In this hands-on workshop, learn how Splunk AppDynamics maps the full user journey and monitors key business processes to give you real-time insights into technical and business performance.

Note: This is an Interactive Workshop Session. Please bring your own laptop to dive into product use cases, walk through real scenarios and demo as you go. Attendance is capped based on content and sessions will not be recorded.

OBS1088 – OpenTelemetry Mastery: Advanced Configuration Including Resilience, Routing, and Data Transformation
Tuesday, Sep 9 | 12:30–1:45 PM EDT
Master OpenTelemetry configurations and optimize your observability pipelines! Learn to create and modify OpenTelemetry configurations, from a basic setup to advanced scenarios. The workshop covers configuration of metadata, debug, file exporters, and storing telemetry data locally for better testing and debugging. Topics include routing traffic, collecting logs, enhancing agent resilience, and using data processing techniques like filtering spans and OpenTelemetry Transformation Language.

Note: This is an Interactive Workshop Session. Please bring your own laptop to dive into product use cases, walk through real scenarios and demo as you go. Attendance is capped based on content and sessions will not be recorded.

OBS1107 - Observability for Gen AI: Monitoring LLM Applications with OpenTelemetry and Splunk
Tuesday, Sep 9 | 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Unlock the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI to tackle real-world business challenges. In this session, dive into key concepts like embeddings, vector databases, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Discover how OpenTelemetry and Splunk Observability Cloud empower you to capture critical metrics, logs, and traces from your Gen AI applications—enabling you to rapidly troubleshoot and optimize performance. Don’t miss out on this exciting deep dive into next-gen tech!

OBS1420 – From 0 to 60: Kubernetes Observability at Full Speed with AI
Wednesday, Sep 10 | 10:30–11:30 AM EDT
Kubernetes is powerful, but without proper monitoring, it’s a black box. In this hands-on interactive workshop, you’ll go from 0 to 60 in Kubernetes observability, instrumenting a live K8s environment with Splunk Observability Cloud agents at full speed. No slides, just real-world monitoring. You’ll detect anomalies, uncover performance issues, and put the AI Assistant in the driver’s seat for faster troubleshooting. Buckle up and take K8s observability into the fast lane!

Note: This is an Interactive Workshop Session. Please bring your own laptop to dive into product use cases, walk through real scenarios and demo as you go. Attendance is capped based on content and sessions will not be recorded.

OBS1590 - Simplified ITSI Onboarding: Get Running Faster with AI Catalyst
Wednesday, Sep 10 | 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM EDT

Accelerate operational efficiency with Splunk ITSI. Utilize AI catalysts to streamline onboarding, enabling rapid detection and resolution of issues across applications, infrastructure, and networks. This session dives deep into leveraging ITSI's AI-driven capabilities to enhance system reliability and expedite incident resolution. Join us to learn how AI facilitates swift alert correlation and recommends accurate service health thresholds, enabling both reactive and proactive troubleshooting.

Advanced Sessions: Optimize, Automate, and Innovate

OBS1794 - Cisco Store Tech Lab Deep Dive: Behind the Scenes of How Splunk Empowered the Cisco Store
Tuesday, Sep 9 | 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Cisco Store's Tech Lab proves how Cisco and Splunk transform massive data streams into real-time intelligence. Join us to see how we brought in data from disparate sources like Shopify, leveraged Cisco Meraki APIs using Cisco app integrations on Splunkbase, and built the powerful dashboards you see on the Cisco Store right now. Learn how Splunk, as part of One Cisco, delivers observability across compute, network, and apps.

OBS1091 – Hands-on with Code Profiling: Blaming the Right Line of Code for Performance Problems the First Time
Wednesday, Sep 10 | 9:00–10:00 AM EDT
Performance problems are easy to identify with metrics and traces, but those can't get you the root causes. In this workshop, you'll take a Java application and deploy automatic OpenTelemetry instrumentation to it. You'll then enable Splunk APM's AlwaysOn Profiling and gain insight into how user interactions affect memory and CPU usage for your applications. You'll learn how to identify the troublesome line of code, and isolate and fix a performance problem on your own.

Note: This is an Interactive Workshop Session. Please bring your own laptop to dive into product use cases, walk through real scenarios and demo as you go. Attendance is capped based on content and sessions will not be recorded.

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