Maytham Alfouadi (Solutions Architect) and Immánuel Fodor (Product Manager) from Traefik Labs give us a demonstration of how to do API monitoring with Traefik, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. They talk about Traefik, an open-source reverse proxy, among other things, that is now included by default in k3s and Rancher. They are joined by Usman Ahmad and Nicole van der Hoeven, both Senior Developer Advocates at Grafana Labs.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introductions
00:03:30 What does Traefik Labs do?
00:08:12 What is a reverse proxy and why might you need one?
00:20:50 What are the advantages of Traefik over Nginx?
00:25:52 How is Traefik improve observability for microservices?
00:31:20 Demo: Traefik + Grafana for observability
00:41:02 Grafana dashboard using Traefik for API performance
00:53:17 Personal use cases for Grafana
00:57:09 Zero trust and security for APIs
00:58:42 How can you learn more about Traefik?

More about Traefik Labs:
Site: https://traefik.io/
Repo: https://github.com/traefik
Docs: https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/

Contact Maytham:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maytham-alfouadi-3873577/

Contact Immánuel:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/immanuelfodor/
Site: https://fodor.it/linkedifactor

Contact Nicole:
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvanderhoeven/
Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com

Contact Usman:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/usmanlinux/
Site: https://usman-ahmad-portfolio.mozellosite.com/

Learn more about Grafana Labs:
Website: https://grafana.com
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana