Brian Graf
Sr. Developer Advocate - NetApp Instaclustr
Provo, Utah, United States
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Brian is a Senior Developer Advocate at NetApp Instaclustr. Brian is an author, public speaker, father, tinkerer, and adventurer. When Brian is not working, you can find him spending time with his wife and 7 kids, camping/hunting, or traveling the world. Brian is ex-EMC, ex-VMware, and ex-AWS.
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From Alert to Answer: Accelerating Anomaly Investigation with OpenSearch Agent Skills
Anomaly detection is the easy part. An alert fires at 2AM — now what?
The real cost isn't detection lag, it's investigation lag: the 20 minutes an on-call SRE spends correlating logs, cross-referencing metrics, and forming hypotheses before knowing where to look. OpenSearch's anomaly detection plugin surfaces the signal well. It has no opinion on what you do next.
This talk explores how agent skills in OpenSearch's ML framework can collapse that investigation window. Instead of a human triaging an alert, an agent picks up where the detector left off: querying correlated log indices, identifying co-occurring error patterns, cross-referencing recent deploys, and surfacing ranked probable causes — autonomously, before the SRE opens a dashboard.
We'll walk through the architecture of a plan-execute-reflect agent wired to an anomaly detection workflow, the tool design decisions that make agents useful vs. noisy in on-call contexts, and the failure modes that will humble you in production.
You'll leave with a clear pattern for connecting OpenSearch's anomaly detection and agent skills layers, and an honest assessment of where human judgment still wins.
From Bug to PR: Turning customer pain points into upstream contributions
Open source thrives when users become contributors. Yet many organizations struggle to bridge the gap between finding bugs and contributing fixes back to the community. At NetApp Instaclustr, we've refined a straightforward process that turns customer pain points into upstream contributions across projects like OpenSearch, Kafka, and Cassandra.
This session demystifies the journey from bug discovery to pull request. We'll walk through our approach: how we identify issues worth upstream attention, navigate project contribution guidelines, and work effectively with maintainers to ensure our fixes benefit the broader community. Attendees will see a real-world example from our recent contributions, following an initial discovery through code review to pull request.
This session is for anyone using open source software who wants to give back to the community. Whether you're a developer, system administrator, support engineer, or technical manager, you'll leave with actionable steps to transform your organization from open source consumer to contributor.
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Brian Graf
Sr. Developer Advocate - NetApp Instaclustr
Provo, Utah, United States
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