Observability
Standalone Elastic Agent, Logstash and Kafka outputs, and OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
Write a standalone configuration, ship to Logstash or Kafka, and use Elastic Agent as an OpenTelemetry Collector (EDOT distribution) to collect logs, metr…
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Observability
Monitoring, upgrading and troubleshooting Elastic Agent
Operate an Elastic Agent fleet: states in Fleet, agent monitoring, batch upgrades, diagnostics, logs, common problems (connectivity, certificates, permiss…
Observability
Elastic Agent in production: best practices
Elastic Agent best practices: security, policy organisation, volume control, Fleet Server high availability, upgrades and fleet monitoring.
Observability
Git Sync in Grafana: version dashboards in GitHub
Sync Grafana dashboards and folders with a GitHub repository: prerequisites, token, setup in Administration > Provisioning, saving through commits or pull…
Observability
Grafana announcement banner: inform every user
Show a message at the top of every Grafana page: enabling it, the Message field with Markdown and HTML, colour variants, scheduling, permissions, API prov…
Observability
Correlations in Grafana: jump from one data source to another
Create links between data sources in Explore: query and external correlations, variables, regex and logfmt transformations, creation in the UI or through …
Observability
Alloy and the Grafana Labs ecosystem: which component for which tool?
The map of Alloy integrations with Faro, Beyla, k6, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, Database Observability, Fleet Management and Kubernetes Monitoring.
Observability
Faro and Alloy: receiving front-end RUM with faro.receiver
Configure faro.receiver: CORS, API key, rate limiting, source maps, then send browser errors, Web Vitals and traces to Loki and Tempo. Real results.
Observability
Beyla and Alloy: zero-code RED metrics and traces with beyla.ebpf
Enable Beyla eBPF instrumentation in Alloy: service discovery, RED metrics to Mimir, traces to Tempo, required privileges.
Observability
Database Observability: tracking MySQL and PostgreSQL queries and plans with Alloy
Alloy's database_observability.mysql and .postgres components: collectors, execution plans, locks, sending to Loki and Mimir, required grants.
Observability
k6 and Alloy: sending load test results over OpenTelemetry
Send k6 metrics to Alloy with the OpenTelemetry output, convert them for Mimir and compare them with service metrics. Real results with k6 v2.3.0.
Observability
Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring and the OpenTelemetry engine: Alloy at scale
Manage hundreds of Alloys with remotecfg and Fleet Management, deploy the k8s-monitoring v4 Helm chart, run an OpenTelemetry Collector configuration with …
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