Rethinking Network Monitoring#

Mr David Flores

• Why: Monitoring modernisation is the flip side of automation — every session on source-of-truth and automation at this event depends on telemetry you can actually act on.
• What: A reframe of monitoring as observability: a modular open-source stack spanning collection, processing, storage, visualisation, and alerting, enriched with a network source of truth, correlating metrics/logs/flows, with event-driven automation and AI-assisted root cause analysis. The event page summary adds the honest trade-off framing: scale, operational overhead, and expertise costs of building your own stack, with modularity as the mitigation.
• How: Pair telemetry with a source of truth so data becomes queryable and context-rich, then layer automation and AI-assisted RCA on top; the speaker positions this as a pilotable blueprint.
• Where applicable: General technique, vendor-neutral (independent speaker), applicable to any size of network — though the "build vs buy" trade-offs the summary flags are the real decision content.