Open Source Observability Explained - The Grafana Stack
Wish you could have open source observability explained to you? Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven explains how all the OSS projects from the Grafana Labs stack work together and how the picture they're all building towards is continuous reliability. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:31 Concerns in observability 01:05 1. Identifying data to collect 02:23 Logs with Grafana Loki 04:16 Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana Mimir 06:26 Distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo 08:00 Continuous profiles with Grafana Pyroscope 10:16 2. Collecting data and instrumentation 10:50 Source instrumentation with Grafana Faro and OpenTelemetry 11:32 Binary instrumentation with Grafana Alloy 12:52 External eBPF instrumentation with Grafana Beyla 14:24 Software testing with Grafana k6 16:09 3. Doing stuff with data - visualization with Grafana 17:22 Incident response management with Grafana OnCall 18:27 Summary of open source observability LINKS TO ALL PROJECTS: Grafana Repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/ Loki Repo: https://gra.fan/lokirepo Docs: https://gra.fan/lokidocs Tempo Repo: https://gra.fan/temporepo Docs: https://gra.fan/tempodocs Mimir Repo: https://gra.fan/mimirrepo Docs: https://gra.fan/mimirdocs Pyroscope Repo: https://gra.fan/pyrorepo Docs: https://gra.fan/pyrodocs k6 Repo: https://gra.fan/k6repo Docs: https://gra.fan/k6docs Beyla Repo: https://gra.fan/beylarepo Docs: https://gra.fan/beyladocs Alloy Repo: https://gra.fan/alloyrepo Docs: https://gra.fan/alloydocs Faro Repo: https://gra.fan/farorepo Docs: https://gra.fan/farodocs OnCall Repo: https://gra.fan/oncallrepo Docs: https://gra.fan/oncalldocs Prometheus Repo: https://gra.fan/promrepo Docs: https://gra.fan/promdocs OpenTelemetry Repo: https://gra.fan/otelrepo Docs: https://gra.fan/oteldocs ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case. Sign up: https://grafana.com/get/?src=yt&mdm=s... ❓ Check out the Official Grafana Community Forums: https://gra.fan/communityyf ----- 👍 If you found this video useful, be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more helpful Grafana videos. 📱 Follow us for the latest and greatest on all things Grafana and our other OSS projects. X: / grafana LinkedIn: / mycompany Facebook: / grafana #Grafana #Observability

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