274 Followers
417 Following
1.7K Posts
Itinerant wandering IT storyteller & DevOps ferret. #Monitoring, #Observability & automation fanboi. Author @ adatosystems.com. Host of TechnicallyReligious.com podcast. He/him. No #manels. Ask me about my grandkids.
BlueSkyhttps://bsky.app/profile/leonadato.com
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adatole
Websitehttps://adatosystems.com
Githubhttps://github.com/adatole/
My Book:https://amazon.com/dp/173380241X/
Gravatarhttps://en.gravatar.com/adatosystems
On your birthday you have to wear the hat. I don't make the rules.
Who's headed to #RSA?
If you are, come find me in booth 6353 to talk #monitoring, #observability, and #telemetry. (And to snag some of the coolest swag of the conference. Trust me on this one)
Mark Pawlikowski and I didn't think this would be an accurate depiction of getting to #DevOpsNotDead in NYC this week, but here we are.
New year, new shirt, new role. Excited to be part of the herd at @cribl_io!
I tweaked my gear and setup, and I'm ready to start the 2026 video season!

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of speaking at @sreday_com Paris. My wife caught this image, which I kind of love. You can watch my talk - "Network O11y: Underappreciated and More Important Than Ever" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em2Hlv1rBUA

And all the SREDay Paris talks here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9gQ3vZ7l4&list=PL2CAJ_jforK4CRsY-jbgb9SgEUJ_nVAF-

I'm prepping slides for my talk at @sreday_com Amsterdam next week and thought I'd share this one. If you are in the neighborhood, it's going to be a fun conference for everyone!

https://sreday.com/2025-amsterdam-q4/

"So, Leon, what do you do for exercise?"
"I bring in my daughter's groceries. "
My daughter's groceries:

If you're at @apiworld today, so am I!

Come hear me talk about "Network Observability: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and more important than ever" at 1:30 on Workshop Stage A. It's 25 minutes lone, and there will be prizes for everyone who makes it to the end.

"What's New at @catchpoint" episode 2 teaser: