Open source observability explained - the Grafana Labs stack

Open source observability explained - the Grafana Labs stack

Apr 16, 2024

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://github.com/grafana/loki
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/

Tempo
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/tempo
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/

Mimir
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/mimir
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/

Pyroscope
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/latest/

k6
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/k6
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/

Beyla
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/beyla
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/

Alloy
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/alloy
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/

Faro
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/faro-web-sdk
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/frontend-observability/

OnCall
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/oncall
Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/oncall/latest/

Prometheus
Repo: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
Docs: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/

OpenTelemetry
Repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry
Docs: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/

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