Monitorama PDX 2015 - Closing Plenary

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Measuring an Event

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4 Total number of Monitorama events we’ve held.

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

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

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550 Number of registrations when we sold out this year.

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

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

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278 Number of folks on the waiting list.

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

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10 Number of Angel tickets sold for charity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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25 Number of full-length talks given this week.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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37 Number of sponsors at Monitorama this year.

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

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2 Number of times I cried on stage this week.

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

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

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

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0 Number of backups completed after public shamings.

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129 Number of hugs distributed this week.

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600 Number of Blue Star donuts served.

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

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

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23 Number of conversations held about scaling this event

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

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1 Number of bottles of liquor consumed this week.

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2 Number of Monitorama events planned for 2015.

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3 Number of Monitorama events planned for 2016.

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

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

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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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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.