The Open Tech Day 2025 Talks – Grafana Edition: Unified Observability: Leveraging ClickHouse as a Comprehensive Telemetry Database & Grafana Dashboards as Prompt
CONFERENCE TALK
The Open Tech Day 2025 Talks – Grafana Edition: Unified Observability: Leveraging ClickHouse as a Comprehensive Telemetry Database & Grafana Dashboards as Prompt
September 23 All day
The Open Tech Day – Grafana Edition Conference brings together professionals from various sectors to explore topics such as Grafana’s latest features, real-world applications, and best practices in monitoring. In addition to technical content, Open Tech Day 2025 offers opportunities for networking and exchange within the open source and observability communities.
Our Altinity colleagues will share with us their knowledge through the following talks:
- Grafana Dashboards as Prompt – Denys Kondratenko
Thanks to the Grafana Foundation SDK, dashboards as code are much more stable and interesting to use. Using libraries such as Grafonnet and Mixins packaging it is possible to create observability libraries like Jsonnet lib. However, if you don’t do this regularly, it is hard to maintain knowledge about Jsonnet and specific libs. In this talk, we will check how modern LLMs can help us bootstrap, generate, and maintain Grafana dashboards.
- Unified Observability: Leveraging ClickHouse as a Comprehensive Telemetry Database – Alkin Tezuysal
This talk supports the Kubernetes and observability ecosystem by showcasing how to consolidate metrics, logs, traces, and eBPF data into a unified backend using ClickHouse. It demonstrates how teams can reduce tool sprawl, simplify their observability pipelines, and improve troubleshooting across distributed systems. By integrating with open standards like OpenTelemetry and tools like Prometheus, Jaeger, and Grafana, this approach promotes scalable, open-source observability practices within cloud-native environments.
About the Presenter
Alkin Tezuysal – Director of Services at Altinity
Alkin Tezuysal has extensive experience in open-source relational databases, working in various sectors and large functions. With over three decades of industry experience, he has led global operations teams for MySQL customers and users. He’s a known speaker at worldwide open-source database events.
He was awarded Most Influential in Database Community 2022 by The Redgate 100. He has co-authored MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition 2022, by O’Reilly Media, Inc. He was awarded MySQL Rockstar 2023—Oracle (MySQL Community)—Co-authored Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL 2024 by Packt. He was awarded to Oracle ACE Pro 2025 – Oracle ACE Program.
Denys Kondratenko – Engineering Manager for Cloud at Altinity
Denys Kondratenko is an Engineering Manager for Cloud at Altinity, where he serves as an architect specializing in platform development. With previous roles at Percona, SUSE, and Seagate, Denys brings a wealth of experience in databases and distributed storage. His past engagements include leading initiatives in monitoring and DBaaS at Percona, contributing to Ceph development at SUSE, and working on Luster at Seagate. A passionate Linux enthusiast, Denys has a longstanding commitment to open source projects, actively contributing to initiatives like openSUSEway. Additionally, he has been running full Wayland for many years, demonstrating his deep involvement in the Linux ecosystem.
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