Daria Barteneva, Microsoft Azure, and Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb
Drowning in logs but still struggling to get answers? In this open-format session, we invite you to drive the conversation. Whether you're debating the cost of cardinality, struggling with alert fatigue, or actively implementing OpenTelemetry at scale, this unconference discussion session is your space to compare notes. Join us to discuss the tools, culture, and realities of monitoring and observability in complex systems.
Daria is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer in Observability Engineering in Azure. With a background in Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, and Music, Daria is passionate about machine learning, diversity in tech, and opera. In her current role, Daria is focused on changing organisational culture, processes, and platforms to improve service reliability and on-call experience. She has spoken at conferences on various aspects of reliability and human factors that play a key role in engineering practices, and has written for O'Reilly.
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with over two decades of experience. She is currently a Technical Fellow at honeycomb.io, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.
She lives in Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly and partners, and in Sydney, NSW. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.
author = {Daria Barteneva and Liz Fong-Jones},
title = {Monitoring and Observability},
year = {2026},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}