Observability with Grafana: Monitor, control, and visualize your Kubernetes and cloud platforms using the LGTM stack

by Rob Chapman, Peter Holmes

Overview

To overcome application monitoring and observability challenges, Grafana Labs offers a modern, highly scalable, cost-effective Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir (LGTM) stack along with Prometheus for the collection, visualization, and storage of telemetry data.
Beginning with an overview of observability concepts, this book teaches you how to instrument code and monitor systems in practice using standard protocols and Grafana libraries. As you progress, you’ll create a free Grafana cloud instance and deploy a demo application to a Kubernetes cluster to delve into the implementation of the LGTM stack. You’ll learn how to connect Grafana Cloud to AWS, GCP, and Azure to collect infrastructure data, build interactive dashboards, make use of service level indicators and objectives to produce great alerts, and leverage the AI & ML capabilities to keep your systems healthy. You’ll also explore real user monitoring with Faro and performance monitoring with Pyroscope and k6. Advanced concepts like architecting a Grafana installation, using automation and infrastructure as code tools for DevOps processes, troubleshooting strategies, and best practices to avoid common pitfalls will also be covered.
After reading this book, you’ll be able to use the Grafana stack to deliver amazing operational results for the systems your organization uses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803249643
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	01/12/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	356
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Rob Chapman is a creative IT engineer and founder at The Melt Cafe, with two decades of experience in the full application life cycle. Working over the years for companies such as the Environment Agency, BT Global Services, Microsoft, and Grafana, Rob has built a wealth of experience on large complex systems. More than anything, Rob loves saving energy, time, and money and has a track record for bringing production-related concerns forward so that they are addressed earlier in the development cycle, when they are cheaper and easier to solve. In his spare time, Rob is a Scout leader, and he enjoys hiking, climbing, and, most of all, spending time with his family and six children.
Peter Holmes is a senior engineer with a deep interest in digital systems and how to use them to solve problems. With over 16 years of experience, he has worked in various roles in operations. Working at organizations such as Boots UK, Fujitsu Services, Anaplan, Thomson Reuters, and the NHS, he has experience in complex transformational projects, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, and leadership. Peter has a history of taking time to understand the customer and ensuring Day-2+ operations are as smooth and cost-effective as possible.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Observability and the Grafana Stack
2. Instrumenting Applications and Infrastructure
3. Setting Up a Learning Environment with Demo Applications
4. Looking at Logs with Grafana Loki
5. Monitoring with Metrics using Grafana Mimir and Prometheus
6. Tracing Technicalities with Grafana Tempo
7. Interrogating Infrastructure with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Azure
8. Displaying Data with Dashboards
9. Managing Incidents using Alerts
10. Automation with Infrastructure as Code
11. Architecting an Observability Platform
12. Real User Monitoring with Grafana
13. Application Performance with Grafana Pyroscope and k6
14. Supporting DevOps Processes with Observability
15. Troubleshooting, Implementing Best Practices, and More with Grafana