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+Dmitry Melanchenko <melanchenko@gmail.com>
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+# Monitoring and observability
+
+This projects is created to accumulate as much information as possible for successful series of meeting about Monitoring and Observability for computer systems.
+
+## Topics for the meetings
+
+* Introduction about what is monitoring and what is observability
+* How to build a monitoring pipeline
+* Monitoring tools for different languages and platforms
+* How to make a system observable: typical patterns
+* Let's find what's wrong: group exercise to find what's wrong with a system using data from monitoring only.
+