When Observability Meets Sustainability - A Real World Experience

Explore the intersection of observability and sustainability in computing through this informative conference talk. Gain insights into a comprehensive measurement system for sustainability, encompassing around 100 metrics across four dimensions: security and compliance, reliability and availability, effectiveness of operations, and greenness and low carbon. Learn about the requirements for observability systems to collect, visualize, analyze, and optimize these quantitative measurements. Discover real-world practices implemented in a data center to monitor full-stack computing metrics, analyze improvement opportunities, and automate actions for continuous sustainability enhancement without compromising performance and availability. Witness a live demonstration of the system in action, featuring real-time dashboards of sustainability metrics, analysis techniques for identifying improvement opportunities, and methods for optimizing these metrics.

When Observability Meets Sustainability: A Real World Experience - Marcelo Amaral, Hua Ye & Fan Meng