Observability Summit North America 2026

Unified observability has lately been regarded as the holy grail by some. One platform, universal observability, for everything. Usually, this would be the default, but when you are at a 30-year-old non-technical enterprise, dealing with a mixture of legacy and modern systems, it's a whole different story.

A consequence of legacy decisions, in some cases, results in having multiple observability platforms for different teams within the company, adding overhead, cost, noise, and audit complexity. This was the case at Emaar, a property developer based in Dubai, until the PE team took on the exciting project of unifying all observability into one platform. This included applications, infrastructure, network, and security. The complexity arises not just from the different data sources, but rather from the number and nature of the deployment sites. This included sites across 10 countries consisting of data centers, hotels, malls, shops, etc.

This talk will outline the experience of implementing a unified observability platform consisting of thousands of network devices, machines, and application workloads using open-source technologies that resulted in 6 figures of cost savings.