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18-19 June
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12:00pm IST

What Did My Agent Do? Observability and Accountability for AI Agents - Ishan Jain, Grafana Labs

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Generative AI systems and AI agents behave very differently from traditional software. Their non-deterministic nature and ability to act across multiple steps make debugging and accountability harder, which increases the need for better observability. Beyond latency and error rates, teams need insight into prompts, responses, and agent actions to understand what an agent did and why.

In this session, I will show how to instrument AI agents using OpenTelemetry and the GenAI Semantic Conventions, with OpenLIT as the native SDK. Through a live demo, I will demonstrate how to capture agent interactions alongside performance telemetry using Prometheus and Jaeger, while keeping sensitive data separate to reduce risk and cost.

I will also show how telemetry can support ongoing evaluations, helping teams reason about agent behavior over time without logging everything. This talk is for engineers building AI agents who want to improve trust and accountability without oversharing data.

Speakers

Ishan Jain

Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

I’m a Developer Experience Engineer at Grafana Labs, focused on making observability practical and accessible. I maintain the Grafana Ansible Collection, Grafana Operator, and OpenLIT, with over 5M downloads. Formerly an SRE, I enjoy working in open source and sharing real-world... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:40pm IST

Re-Architecting Monoliths Into Kubernetes Microservices at Million-User Scale: Hard Lessons - Aditya Sharma, Lumenore

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Legacy platforms often begin as tightly coupled monoliths running on virtual machines. While workable at small scale, this model breaks down under real production traffic, operational growth, and security demands.

This talk presents a real-world case study of re-architecting a BI and AI analytics platform from a VM-based monolith into Kubernetes-native microservices serving millions of users. It covers a 13 years journey from on-prem bare metal and vertical scaling failures to containerization and a production-grade Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments.

The session focuses on practical challenges such as resource contention, downtime-driven scaling, observability gaps, security audit failures, configuration drift, and manual operations, and explains how these drove decisions around service decomposition, GitOps, defense-in-depth security, and service mesh adoption.

Speakers

Aditya Sharma

Technical Architect, Lumenore

I’m driven by curiosity and a passion for building better systems. With experience across DevOps, DevSecOps and FinOps, I integrate security, automation and efficiency from day one. I help organizations tame complexity and turn technology into a competitive advantage. I believe... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:30pm IST

Who Watches the Watchers? From Closed Observability To Open Control at Scale - Aditi Gupta, JioHotstar; Madhu Patel, Adobe; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen

Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Observability is your safety net - but at scale, it often fails first. As our Kubernetes platform grew, rising traffic produced more telemetry, overwhelming our stack and leaving us blind during incidents. High-cardinality metrics exhausted memory, and ingestion brownouts became recurring nightmares. We didn't have too much data; we had too little control.
In this talk, we dissect the concrete failure modes and show how we rebuilt observability by treating telemetry pipelines as first-class distributed systems with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo.

We will walk through production fixes:

- Active Traffic Shaping: OTel Collectors for batching and tail sampling.
- Defusing Cardinality Bombs: Prometheus recording rules to stabilise memory.
- Back pressure & Limits: Surviving 10x traffic spikes.

This isn't a tool comparison. It's a blueprint for building observability you can reason about under stress, so your monitoring doesn't become the “next outage” you're explaining.

Speakers

Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)

Hailing from India, Sandeep is a passionate software engineer and individual contributor. A frequent meetup speaker, he loves sharing real-world lessons and insights with the community. He's a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, serving as co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard... Read More →

Aditi Gupta

Software Engineer II @JioHotstar, JioStar India Pvt. Ltd.

I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →

Madhu Patel

Software Engineer 2, Adobe

I'm Madhu Patel, a Software Development Engineer at Adobe, where I work on large-scale distributed backend services supporting Creative Cloud platforms, as well as AI agents designed to enhance user productivity. I am a graduate of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

5:11pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Pruning the Kernel CVEs With Code Reachability Analysis - Ashish Bijlani, Ossillate Inc

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:11pm - 5:16pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

The Linux kernel is now a CVE Numbering Authority, a change that has driven an unprecedented increase in reported kernel vulnerabilities. In Kubernetes environments, this shift has amplified compliance requirements that mandate per-CVE tracking, remediation, or justification.

This talk presents a methodology for kernel CVE pruning via static code reachability analysis. We map CVEs to vulnerable kernel functions and evaluate whether those functions are reachable under a specific kernel configuration and execution environment. The analysis incorporates build-time configuration (Kconfig), loadable modules, and inter-procedural call graphs to approximate practical exploitability.

We present an open-source tool that automates this analysis and evaluate it with representative workloads. Our results show that many kernel CVEs are in unreachable code, yielding a high reduction in reported exposure. We also discuss limitations and implications for compliance-driven vulnerability management.

Speakers

Ashish Bijlani

Entrepreneur/Researcher, Ossillate Inc

Ashish is the founder of Ossillate Inc, a cybersecurity startup. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has co-authored peer-reviewed papers in top-tier academic conferences, and has also presented his work at premier industry conferences, such... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:11pm - 5:16pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

Content Experience Level Beginner

5:32pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Why Your Cluster-Wide Policies Are a Risk (And What To Do About It) - Dhruv Puri, Aspora

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

As Kubernetes evolves, so must policy enforcement. ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and MutatingAdmissionPolicy set new standards using CEL for policy logic. Kyverno aligned with these patterns and introduced CEL-based policy types.

However, cluster-scoped resources created challenges: RBAC complexity, isolation concerns, and performance bottlenecks. Kyverno addressed this with namespace-scoped policy types - limiting blast radius, simplifying permissions, and improving admission latency.

Dhruv Puri (Kyverno LFX Mentee) explains why namespace-scoped policies matter, how they secure multi-tenant environments, and how Kyverno internals can help you optimize admission performance.
Attendees leave with actionable strategies for namespace-scoped policies and a deeper understanding of Kyverno's architecture.

Speakers

Dhruv Puri

DevOps Engineer, Aspora

I’m an open-source contributor, with a strong interest in DevOps, cloud-native technologies, and large-scale infrastructure. I’ve worked with Kyverno wherein I implemented the namespace-scoped CEL policies and have previously contributed to Prometheus Operator as GSoC contributor... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

Content Experience Level Beginner

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