🔎 (Open Source) Observability Test Drive Workshop

📍 DevOpsCon Berlin 2023

This is the code and slides we'll be using during our observability workshop.

👴🏻 Observability theory

TBD

🔬 Your test laboratory instance

Getting started with your own lab instance.

🏎️ Test drive observability suites

We are going to give several observability suites a test drive. We'll integrate

• APM (application performance monitoring) a.k.a. Tracing
• Metrics
• Logs
• Uptime monitoring

We are going to use SaaS cloud offerings as far as possible and feasible.

📦 Deploy the example application

We are going to use the Spring Petclinic application as our test application.

📦 Naive observability

What native tools do we have on our machine to get an overview what's going on?

🪡 Prometheus & Grafana

This candidate is very close to a self-hosted open source experience. We are going to host a Prometheus instance ourselves but leverage the Grafana Cloud for displaying dashboards, metrics and traces.

🛬 Java Flight Recorder

The Java Flight Recorder ships along recent JDKs, is free and offers spectacular insights into a running (or crashed) Java application.

🦆 Elastic Stack

The Elastic Stack is a well known for its log analysis capabilities. But there's more! We'll leverage a Trial Elastic Cloud offering for this test drive.