Netdata sent two speakers to Civo Navigate Europe 2023 in London on September 5–6. Ralph Meijer, VP of Technology, opened with “Opinionated Observability” at noon on day one – a talk about the design trade-offs behind monitoring defaults and why those choices matter more than most vendors admit. The argument: when your tool ships with good opinions about what to collect, how to visualize it, and when to alert, you remove an entire class of configuration toil.
On day two, Andrew Maguire (ML Lead) took the stage at 10:45 BST for “10 Practical ML Use Cases in Observability.” Andrew’s framing was “ML as UX” – the idea that machine learning is most useful not as a marketing bullet point but as something that makes the product genuinely easier to use. Cut through the hype and what remains is anomaly detection that surfaces problems you did not write rules for. He followed that at 11:30 with a seat on the “Future of ML & AI” panel, running until 12:10.
We also had a booth right at the entrance of the event space. Foot traffic was strong – hard to avoid us on the way in. Conversations ranged from Kubernetes monitoring specifics to the broader question of how much configuration a monitoring tool should require out of the box.
Civo Navigate drew a cloud-native audience, mostly practitioners building on Kubernetes. For Netdata, it was a good fit: the people at this event were the same people running the kind of distributed infrastructure where per-second, zero-configuration monitoring pays off immediately.
