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Perses: Visualize Observability Data with Eric Schabell

Featuring

Eric Schabell
Eric D. Schabell

Director of Technical Marketing and Evangelism | Chronosphere

Eric is Chronosphere’s Director of Technical Marketing and Evangelism. He’s renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author, and baseball expert. His current role allows him to help the world understand the challenges they are facing with cloud native observability. He brings a unique perspective to the stage with a professional life dedicated to sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies, organizations, and is a CNCF Ambassador.

Overview

In this episode of The Landscape, Bart and Sylvain interview Perses maintainer Eric Schabell. Perses recently became a sandbox project int he CNCF.

Session Information

Perses is a dashboard and visualization project within the CNCF landscape that aims to provide an open standard for dashboard definitions. It is fully open source and designed to be a Kubernetes-native solution, with a focus on GitOps and dashboard-as-code. Perses can validate configurations, offers API access for integration, and is user-friendly. Organizations like Amadeus, Red Hat, and Chronosphere have implemented it.

The tool supports metrics from storage backends like Prometheus and has plans to enhance its plugin system, add Knative integration, and introduce new features such as an explorer and alert view.