Observability engineer, the best friend you never knew you had
summary
Shows a concrete workflow: observability engineers build the stack, add OpenTelemetry traces+correlation to link metrics, logs and traces, and deliver focused dashboards and alerts so on‑call time drops from hours to minutes. Demonstrates using Grizzly dashboards-as-code (YAML/Jsonnet, GitHub Actions) to generate and push Grafana dashboards, Tempo for traces, Loki/Mimir for logs/metrics, and Vector for PII redaction. Demo proves local editing, live preview and remote sync work end‑to‑end.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Observability introduction
- 1:26Developers and observability
- 3:17Observability engineers role
- 4:21Metrics logs and traces
- 6:03Correlation and scoped data
- 8:09Collaboration for observability
- 10:38OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- 12:46Focused observability dashboards
- 14:10Grizzly dashboard automation
- 18:08Grizzly config and usage
- 22:34Grizzly live demo
- 35:24Correlated troubleshooting dashboards
- 39:42Q&A on logging GDPR
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