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The observed life: what I learned building dashboards for fun
In this talk, I’ll share what I learned by turning my interests from everyday life into dashboards. From monitoring home climate data to tracking a mortgage burn-down chart and even visualizing video game performance stats, I’ll walk through a handful of fun dashboards that started as personal hobbies and the lessons I learned along the way.
Beyond the demos, I’ll also focus on practical tips for dashboard development to help you go from “I have an idea” to something that works. We’ll see open source tools like Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Home Assistant, and how AI can actually be useful for helping out.
Pete Wall
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
Pete is an engineer at Grafana Labs where he has been working to make Kubernetes observability easy. At Grafana, he develops the open source Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart, which has been deployed to thousands of clusters. He is active in the Grafana community, leading local meetup groups and participating in Grafana’s public Slack workspace.
He lives in Rochester, MN with his family and enjoys lifting weights, delicious coffee, and seeing the world.