Netdata was a Co-Presenting Partner at the 7th Edition India DevOps Show on May 23, 2025 at the Holiday Inn in Mumbai. Satyadeep Ashwathnarayana, Constantine Nikitiadis, and Shyam Sreevalsan represented the team.
The talk – “Stop Building Dashboards. Start Solving Problems.” – challenged the default approach to observability that most DevOps teams fall into: install a monitoring tool, spend weeks building dashboards, and then stare at those dashboards during incidents trying to find the problem. The argument is that dashboards are a means, not an end. If your monitoring tool can surface the problem directly – through anomaly detection, automated correlation, and AI-driven investigation – then the dashboard becomes a verification step, not a diagnostic one.
We ran a live demo of per-second observability during the talk. Seeing metrics update every second, with ML-based anomaly scores overlaid in real time, made the “every second counts” claim concrete rather than abstract. India’s DevOps community is growing fast, and the practitioners at this event were dealing with the same scale and complexity challenges as teams anywhere – just often with tighter budgets and smaller ops teams, which makes the cost and efficiency arguments for Netdata particularly relevant.
