Setting up OpenTelemetry to send metrics and traces to Grafana Cloud

By Ian Homer - 22 Aug 2024

Observability is essential for understanding how your system actually behaves and for ensuring reliable performance and a solid user experience. As systems grow and evolve, you need consistent, vendor-neutral observability tooling - especially when you want to avoid getting locked into a single platform provider. Cost becomes a real concern as your usage scales: what seemed like an affordable package with low user volumes can quickly become expensive as usage ramps up.

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Monitoring Kubernetes metrics with Grafana and Prometheus

By Ian Homer - 17 May 2024

Grafana is an open observability platform that gives your team a centralised view on the health and behaviour of your system. We'll use Kubernetes metrics to quickly spin up some dashboards and provide foundations to experiment and learn more about Grafana.

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