Jash Mistry and Gabriela Medvetska, eBay Inc
Navigating the complexities of microservices observability requires more than just traditional monitoring — especially for asynchronous systems. This session provides a comprehensive “recipe” to cooking up Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for asynchronous pipelines. Learn how to identify critical metrics, instrument your app using Prometheus, design meaningful dashboards, and define actionable alerts. Whether you're a junior site reliability sous-chef or a seasoned ops chef, you'll leave with a practical cookbook of strategies to enhance your async system's observability and monitor customer experience.
Jash Mistry is a Senior Software Engineer at eBay. As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, he played a crucial role in the evolution of monitoring—expanding on absolute error counts and average latencies to develop a highly reliable SLO-driven observability platform. He has a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Movie theatres are his second home, but he does not mind seeing one from the couch as long as it's on Mubi or the Criterion Channel.
Gabriela Medvetska is a Software Engineer at eBay. As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, she worked on a variety of projects ranging from developing UIs for internal observability tooling to implementing machine learning algorithms to improve site resiliency during external vendor outages. She is a banana slug from Ukraine and has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Being a typical Gemini, she has 50 billion hobbies, but she is most excited about a cyberpunk festival called Neotropolis coming up in April.
author = {Jash Mistry and Gabriela Medvetska},
title = {Beyond Sequential: A Recipe for Async Pipeline Observability and Alerting},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}