Programme Committee
Kris Buytaert
Programme Committee

Kris Buytaert

Observability Practice Lead at Percona

Long time Linux and Open Source consultant, one of the instigators of the DevOps movement

Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source consultant, and a DevOps and Open Source expert and engineering leader. He is one of the instigators of the DevOps movement.

He spends most of his time bridging the gap between developers and operations, with a strong focus on high availability, scalability, virtualisation and large infrastructure management projects, building infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud.

He started more than one conference series and lost count of how many times he has spoken at other events, and has written about these subjects in books, papers and articles. He has not blogged for a while, but people still point out the title of his blog: “Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem”.

Selected talks

10 tools for your open source o11y stack

Percona Live 2026 · Amsterdam, NL

10 Sep 2026

Lessons from 10 years of Platform Engineering

DevopsCon Munich · Munich, DE

2 Dec 2025

Bow for me for I am Coroot

NLUUG Najaars Conference · Utrecht, NL

20 Nov 2025

Lessons from 10 years of Platform Engineering

Devopsdays Tokyo · Tokyo, JP

15 Apr 2025

From #monitoringsucks to #monitoringlove and back

OSOD 2024 · Online

2024

Observability will not fix your broken Monitoring

Øredev · Malmö, SE

6 Nov 2024

Observability will not fix your Broken monitoring (ignite version)

Devopsdays Berlin · Berlin, DE

21 Sep 2022

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