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Mission O11y Possible : Panic at the Pod - Season 2

Cloud Native Noida

Dec 13, 2025, 3:30 AM – 12:00 PM (UTC)

In-person event

It will be a fun filled gamification of Software Operations. simulating real incidents with teams fighting with each oth...

About this event

It will be a fun filled gamification of Software Operations. simulating real incidents with teams fighting with each other to find the root cause and suggest fixes.

Get ready to wear the cap of SRE & Product Operation specialist. 

Welcome to the chaos. Can you keep production alive?

Participation Types

No Individual Registrations.

Team Registration : Register as a team of 3 members. Participation require knowledge of SRE and Operational concept and preferably hands-on knowledge of Observability Tools.

Participants need to have skill to analyze the application issue form the signals like Traces, Metrics and logs.

Primary audience: Experienced SREs and operational engineers responsible for production reliability, with hands-on exposure to any observability platform.

Student participation: Final-year university students with foundational observability knowledge may join as a “junior” teammate alongside an experienced SRE. (One student per team.)

Event Details

Step into a live observability battlefield — a simulated production world full of hidden bugs, chaos, and surprise outages.
Your mission? Detect, analyze, and resolve incidents in real time using OpenTelemetry and your best SRE instincts.

But here’s the twist — the CNCG Noida team will inject live panics, random failures, and cascading alerts throughout the event.
Multiple issues. Limited time. Maximum chaos.

🔥 What You’ll Face:

  • Real-time alerts from a live, stressed application

  • Random performance and reliability issues

  • Competing teams racing to restore order

🧠 What You’ll Do:

  • Investigate alerts, trace root causes, and submit

  • Collaborate under pressure

  • Present your RCA and strategy to a panel of judges

🏆 How to Win:

  • Fastest and most accurate RCA

  • Clear analysis & presentation

  • Bonus for handling multiple panics with composure

💥 Ready to trace through the chaos?
Join CNCG Noida for Mission O11y Possible: Panic at the Pod
because in production, panic is real… but so is your power to stop it.

Speakers

  • Aakansha Priya

    Dash0

    Solution Architect

  • Kunal Verma

    Randoli

    Developer Advocate

Judges

  • Deepak Mishra

    Adidas

    director, SRE

  • Abhishek Dubey

    OpsTree

    DevOps Architect

When

When

Saturday, December 13, 2025
3:30 AM – 12:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

Registerations
CNCG Introduction
Event Details, Rules, guidelines & Application details
Dash0 - Introduction & Demo - Aakansha Priya
Accelerate Incident Response and RCA with Randoli - Kunal Verma
Team Introduction and setup validation
Break + Team Setup & Space Allocation
MissionO11lyPossible Event Starts
Lunch
Team Slide preparations Time
Team Presentations (10 minutes per team)
Result Announcement and Falicitation

Hosts

  • Hemant Rathore

    Microsoft

    Technology Specialist

  • Manoj Kumar Sardana

    HCL Software

    Director of Information Systems

  • Animesh Pathak

    Harness Inc

    DevRel Engineer

Organizers

  • Animesh Pathak

    Harness Inc

    Organizer

  • Hemant Singh Rathore

    Microsoft

    Technical Specialist

  • Manoj Kumar Sardana

    HCL Software

    Director

Venue

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Unstop

Partners

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Randoli

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