Plural x Elastic x Kubernetes August Meetup, with speakers Michael Guarino and Eric Mustin

Our two speakers are Michael Guarino, CTO of Plural and Eric Mustin, Senior Customer Architect at Elastic.

Michael's topic is "Elasticsearch and Agentic Ops: A Perfect Match"

Session Abstract: This talk discusses the ways we've used Elasticsearch at Plural to implement e2e agentic SRE workflows. Examples include using agents to manage your ES clusters themselves, to leveraging it as a low cost log storage engine for deep application root cause analysis, enabling you to reduce observability cost without sacrificing developer experience while maintaining realistic operational total cost of ownership.

Eric's topic is "Telemetry’s Long Way Home: A Kubernetes Odyssey with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Elastic"

Session Abstract: This talk explores how Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Elastic can work together to give Kubernetes metrics, logs, and traces a reliable path home. We’ll look at practical collection architectures, Prometheus-native metrics, OpenTelemetry processing and routing, and how Elastic can bring the resulting signals together. We’ll also discuss resiliency, duplication, architectural tradeoffs, and how to avoid getting lost at sea in an increasingly complex observability ecosystem.

Schedule:

6:00pm - door opens

6:30pm - intros

6:40pm - speaker programming

7:30pm - networking 

8:00pm - event ends

We will have food and drinks during this event. Please arrive no later than 6:15pm so we can get started promptly. Invites are non-transferable.

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About the host: Plural manages the entire software development lifecycle for Kubernetes and and delivers AI-native Kubernetes management at enterprise scale. Bring AI into day-2 operations, automate complex upgrades, and manage Kubernetes fleets across any cloud, data center, or edge all fully under your control. Learn more at https://www.plural.sh/