OSMC 2026
OSMC 2026 is the twentieth Open Source Monitoring Conference. It is still a small, practical event: people who run monitoring and observability in production, plus the maintainers of the tools they actually use.
The first day is workshops. The next two are talks in two rooms, with time left for the hallway track. Sessions are in English. Slides and recordings go to attendees after the conference.
- 📅 November 17–19, 2026 — workshops on the 17th; talks on the 18th and 19th
- 📍 Nuremberg, Germany
- 🏛 Venue: Scandic Nürnberg Central, Frauentorgraben 11
- 🔗 Schedule and tickets: osmc.de
Percona talks
IGNITE: 10 tools for your Open Source o11y stack
Kris Buytaert · November 18, 13:40 · Ballroom 1+2
A five-minute pass over ten open source pieces you can put in an observability stack, and where to start if the platform is still a blank page.
Observability for Vector Search: Why Your Green Dashboard Is Lying To You
Radoslaw Szulgo and Sandra Romanchenko · November 18
Dashboards stay green — QPS, errors, latency — while vector search quietly returns worse results. The talk walks the layers you actually have to watch: database internals, index health, the model, and the quality of what comes out.
The History of Open Source Monitoring
Kris Buytaert · November 19, 15:30 · Ballroom 1+2
Twenty-five years of tools that woke people up at night: what stuck, what got forked, and which mistakes are worth not repeating.
If you are in Nuremberg for OSMC, find Kris, Radoslaw, or Sandra between sessions. The useful part is usually the comparison of what you are running now. ∎
