From Zero Visibility to Full Observability with Grafana
summary
A live demo shows a fresh GKE cluster instrumented via the Grafana Agent and Kubernetes integration, deployed with Helm and a ConfigMap to scrape kube-state-metrics and cAdvisor and ship data to Prometheus Loki and Tempo in Grafana Cloud. The free account limits (50 GB logs/day, 1,500 active series) are noted. Out‑of‑the‑box dashboards and alert rules install, metrics and logs arrive, and trace ID linking lets logs jump to Tempo traces; automated Envoy/OpenTelemetry injection generates application traces. The pipeline works end to end within the demo timeframe.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 2:24Grafana observability overview
- 5:36Architecture of Grafana Cloud
- 7:43Deploying the Grafana agent
- 11:34Configuring Kubernetes integration
- 14:44Deploying metrics and logs
- 18:50Exploring collected data
- 20:58Out-of-the-box dashboards and alerts
- 22:05Correlating metrics logs and traces
- 24:33Drilling into application traces
- 25:37Automating with scripts
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