Have you just discovered Grafana Loki and are planning to use OpenTelemetry as your instrumentation tool of choice? Or looking for an introduction to what OpenTelemetry is? In this Zero to Hero episode, we cover the basics of instrumenting your code with the Otel SDK, the Otel Collector and the new native Otel endpoint of Loki.

Buckle up and get ready to learn about:

00:00 - Intro

00:36 - What is OpenTelemetry?

02:49 - OpenTelemetry Logs

03:56 - Instrumenting your application code with the Otel SDK

06:57 - What is the OpenTelemetry Collector?

08:00 - Creating an OpenTelemetry Collector Config

09:26 - Configuring Loki's native Otel endpoint

09:41 - What is Structured Metadata within Loki

11:06 - Spinning up our Monitoring Stack

12:00 - Querying structured metadata in Grafana

13:27 - Outro

Helpful links:
Killercoda: https://killercoda.com/grafana-labs/course/loki/intro-to-ingest-otel
Github: https://github.com/grafana/loki-fundamentals/tree/intro-to-otel

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