Netdata sponsored QBITS 2025 in Montreal, April 8–10. Shyam Sreevalsan (VP - Product & Strategy) and Stuart McMurran (Enterprise Sales) represented the team at this Quadbridge event, which brings together IT leaders from across Canada and the US.
The audience was heavily tilted toward infrastructure decision-makers – CTOs, VPs of IT, directors of operations. These are people who sign off on monitoring tool purchases and live with the consequences. Three pain points came up in nearly every conversation at the booth: cost (observability bills that scale unpredictably with data volume), complexity (too many tools, too many dashboards, too much configuration), and manual troubleshooting (spending hours correlating data across systems during an incident).
Per-second metrics resonated more than we expected. When we showed attendees what their infrastructure actually looks like at one-second resolution versus the 15- or 60-second averages their current tools provide, the reaction was consistently “we are missing things.” That realization – that sampling creates blind spots – was the most effective demo we ran all week.
We also ran an AirPods giveaway. Brandyn Berry took those home. The draw brought steady traffic to the booth across all three days, but the conversations that followed were the real value.
