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Monitorama PDX 2015 - Closing Plenary

Monitorama PDX 2015 - Closing Plenary

Looking back on the numbers that measure and describe Monitorama PDX 2015.

Jason Dixon

June 17, 2015
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  2. Measuring an Event

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  3. 4
    Total number of Monitorama events we’ve held.

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  4. 2
    Number of Monitorama events that have been held in Portland.

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  5. 500
    Number of attendees at the event last year in Portland.

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  6. 550
    Number of registrations when we sold out this year.

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  7. 570
    Number of registrations when we sold out “again” this year.

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  8. 582
    Number of actual registrations when we opened the doors on Monday.

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  9. 278
    Number of folks on the waiting list.

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  10. 590
    Maximum number of seats in this theater as dictated by the Fire Marshall.

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  11. 10
    Number of Angel tickets sold for charity.

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  12. 9707
    Number of dollars donated to charity on behalf of Angel ticket buyers.

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  13. 18
    Number of goals scored during our Sunday Funday soccer match.

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  14. 1
    Number of times I was scored on by my own daughter.

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  15. 45
    Average amount of minutes spent waiting in registration lines last year.

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  16. 5
    Average amount of minutes spent waiting in registration lines last year.

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  17. 8
    Number of discrete steps taken to address the registration line problem.

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  18. 25
    Number of full-length talks given this week.

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  19. 28
    Number of speakers presenting full-length talks this week.

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  20. 1
    Number of ping pong paddles broken in competition Monday night.

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  21. 2
    Number of ping pong paddles seen in flight Monday night.

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  22. 4
    Number of innocent bystanders hit in the head by one of my smashes.

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  23. 0
    Number of windows broken in ping pong competition this week.

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  24. 2
    Number of Open Source monitoring projects announced at Monitorama this week.

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  25. 6
    Number of Graphite pull requests merged by Jeff Schroder at Monitorama this week.

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  26. 37
    Number of sponsors at Monitorama this year.

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  27. 442
    Maximum number of concurrent users on the guest wifi network this week.

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  28. 2
    Number of times I cried on stage this week.

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  29. 45
    Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput purchased for this week.

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  30. 55
    Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput upgraded to, after Monday
    morning.

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  31. 70
    Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput upgraded to for free temporarily
    by our wifi provider.

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  32. 0
    Number of backups completed after public shamings.

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  33. 129
    Number of hugs distributed this week.

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  34. 600
    Number of Blue Star donuts served.

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  35. 1.5
    Number of Blue Star donuts I’ve eaten this morning.

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  36. 1
    Number of slide decks prepared by me during talks today.

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  37. 23
    Number of conversations held about scaling this event

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  38. 4
    Number of bottles of liquor received as gifts (thank you).

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  39. 1
    Number of bottles of liquor consumed this week.

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  40. 2
    Number of Monitorama events planned for 2015.

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  41. 3
    Number of Monitorama events planned for 2016.

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  42. 0
    Estimated number of gifted bottles of liquor remaining after 2016.

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  43. 1
    Number of other Monitorama-like events in Portland this year that you should attend...

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  44. AutomaCon
    The Infrastructure as Code Conference
    September 15-16, 2015 Portland, OR
    automacon.io
    The smart people at Heavy Water are organizing a new conference this September in Portland.
    I’m advising them on the event, so if you like Monitorama and work with Infrastructure as
    Code, you’ll probably love AutomaCon.

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  45. I’m the author of the Monitoring with Graphite book being published by O’Reilly. I encourage
    you to check out the early release, particularly since I’m working on the troubleshooting
    primitives chapter now, with the scaling chapter coming up after that.

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  46. Thank You

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