Dr. Steffen Gebert, emnify
Learn about cellular connectivity and how your phone can roam in Ireland as you watch this presentation - and the challenges of emnify as cellular operator for IoT connectivity monitoring SIM cards across the world.
As millions of Prometheus metrics were not enough to understand the impact of incidents, we had to change gears to level up our monitoring.
The major part of the presentation describes our approach to overcome the limitation from traditional applications monitoring. We transformed signalling requests and responses from individual packets on the wire into an infinite stream of events. Using Apache Flink as stream processing framework helped us to gain reliable data and enrich with necessary context about customers and network operators.
We are confident that similar approaches can be also applied to systems outside of the telco industry.
Steffen is with emnify, a connectivity provider for the Internet of Things. In his Principal role, he supports multiple teams and tries to bridge the gaps between them.
Before joining emnify in 2017, he was a researcher at the University of Würzburg and received his PhD for his thesis on software-based networks.
