Service cockpit - developer friendly Grafana based monitoring aggregator
summary
A Grafana-based aggregator collects Prometheus metrics, OpenSearch logs, Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Azure Data Explorer and Postgres exporter metrics into one self-hosted instance split into production and development organizations, with about 100 old workbooks consolidated into product-feature dashboards. Dashboards move to dashboards-as-code via Git + Terraform (JSON exports, Jsonnet templates), while alerts and some data sources remain to integrate; this reduces dashboard hopping but creates JSON code-review and retention tradeoffs that teams are actively solving.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 2:11Company landscape and tech stack
- 5:05Observability evolution and challenges
- 7:39Goals for monitoring solution
- 11:12Grafana as central monitoring tool
- 14:07Access control and dashboard organization
- 16:39Product feature model integration
- 19:36Dashboard components and data sources
- 21:04Developer workflow and collaboration
- 22:32Deployment and infrastructure setup
- 24:01Next steps and future plans
- 25:27Q&A session
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