Netdata at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025

Netdata returned to WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin as a partner for the 2025 edition, July 9–11. Costa Tsaousis gave “Practical AI with Machine Learning in Observability” – a talk he has been refining throughout 2024 and into 2025, each time sharpening the examples and responding to questions from previous audiences.

The booth was busy all three days. WeAreDevelopers draws tens of thousands of developers, and the crowd skews younger and more curious than a typical infrastructure conference. Many visitors had not thought deeply about monitoring before – they knew they needed it, but had not compared tools or architectures. Live demos of Netdata running on real infrastructure, showing per-second metrics with zero configuration, gave them a baseline to compare against whatever they try next.

For developers who already ran Netdata, the booth conversations went deeper: how to integrate with existing CI/CD pipelines, how the ML anomaly detection handles seasonal patterns, and whether the distributed architecture works well in hybrid cloud setups. Costa’s talk drew a full room and continued the theme of treating ML as a practical tool for reducing on-call burden rather than a marketing differentiator. Three days in Berlin, a lot of conversations, and a confirmation that the developer audience is increasingly interested in owning their observability stack rather than outsourcing it to an expensive SaaS.