Open source observability explained - the Grafana Labs 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: github.com/grafana/grafana
Docs: grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/
Loki
Repo: github.com/grafana/loki
Docs: grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/
Tempo
Repo: github.com/grafana/tempo
Docs: grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/
Mimir
Repo: github.com/grafana/mimir
Docs: grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/
Pyroscope
Repo: github.com/grafana/pyroscope
Docs: grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/la...
k6
Repo: github.com/grafana/k6
Docs: grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/
Beyla
Repo: github.com/grafana/beyla
Docs: grafana.com/docs/beyla/latest/
Alloy
Repo: github.com/grafana/alloy
Docs: grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/
Faro
Repo: github.com/grafana/faro-web-sdk
Docs: grafana.com/docs/grafana-clou...
OnCall
Repo: github.com/grafana/oncall
Docs: grafana.com/docs/oncall/latest/
Prometheus
Repo: github.com/prometheus/prometheus
Docs: prometheus.io/docs/introducti...
OpenTelemetry
Repo: github.com/open-telemetry
Docs: opentelemetry.io/docs/
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[@brandonmarcum]

As a huge fan of Nicole's work, it's great to see Grafana harness the absolute star power they have within in their ranks. Awesome breakdown of the entire observability stack!

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks so much for the vote of confidence, Brandon!

[@krishnansivakarthikeyan3143]

Very nicely presented and lot of very important aspects are covered beyond grafana.

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks, Krishna! My intention was to give people a conceptual overview of observability as well as talk about how Grafana Labs projects fit in, so I'm glad that worked for you. :)

[@giviz]

You did a really good job with that overview! Thanks!

[@MarcosEnriquePerezBetancourt]

It was a awesome video and well explained the observability stack, thanks so much!!!

[@nicolevdh]

Happy to hear that, Marcos!!

[@joanmateu6347]

Very nice video! Congratulations! Thanks for sharing!

[@nicolevdh]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching. :)

[@m4rc0zulu72]

Great Video! Thanks

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks! Hope it was helpful! :)

[@EdsonCelioAraujo]

Awesome video!

[@nicolevdh]

Glad you liked it, Edson!

[@benschipper]

Great Stuff!

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks, Ben! Glad you liked it. :)

[@benschipper]

@@nicolevdh really great to get people up to speed :)