Observable Lightning Talks September 2025

Observable Lightning Talks is back with new speakers for the September 2025 edition. Come and join us to hear tips and tricks from Industry Experts.

Observable lighting talks open the stage to three speakers sharing their experiences, recommendations, best practices, and more.

And if you have any questions for our speakers, you can ask them during the live panel discussion.

Come and join us on the 16th of September  for the new edition of Observable Lighting Talks.

# Where?

The event will be broadcast live on Linkedin, Twitch, Facebook, and of course Youtube.

Observability and SRE practices rely on many frameworks available on the market. However, since technology evolves at a very fast pace, it can be difficult to keep track of the latest solutions and technologies and implement all the best practices.

To help you improve your practices and understand the best of breed of the latest technology, IsitObservable is launching a new Show: Observable Lightning Talks.

The concept is simple: Thought leaders from the observability industry will help us along in our technology journey.

Each Observable Lighting Talk will host three speakers covering three different topics that we all love:

The  Observable lightning talk of September 2025 is planned on the 16th of September  between 11AM - 12:30PM EST (5pm-6:30PM CEST)

Here is the Agenda for the first edition:

# Agenda

The 3 presentations of this edition are :

# Rotel: Fast, Efficient, and Easy OpenTelemetry—Pick Three

Ray Jenkins, Founder at Streamfold

This talk introduces Rotel, an open-source project that makes OpenTelemetry collection and processing fast, efficient, and easy. We'll cover the project's goals and show how its architecture uses minimal resources, making it ideal for performance-critical environments. We will also demonstrate Rotel's advanced features, including its packages for Python, Node.js, and Lambda, and its powerful Python processor SDK for filtering and transforming telemetry. Join us to see how Rotel can streamline your observability pipelines.

# Introducing Perses: Next-Gen Visualization for Observability

Saiyam Pathak, Head of Developer Relations at Vcluster

In this lightning talk, I’ll introduce Perses, an open-source project focused on visualization and dashboarding for observability. I’ll highlight its core features and give a short demo, while also sharing my perspective on where Perses currently stands within the CNCF ecosystem and how it might evolve alongside other observability tools.

# HolmesGPT: When AI Agents Meet Observability

Natan Yellin, CEO & co-founder of Robusta.dev

LLMs may not be observability tools - but surpringly they’re often better at debugging incidents than humans. HolmesGPT is an open source AI Agent that connects large-language models with observability data. In this talk we'll throw HolmesGPT at real world scenarios, see results, and then take a peek under the hood to see exactly what the model was thinking and how it reached its conclusions. We hope this talk will inspire you to use AI agents with your own observability data.