Summary

In this chapter, we have gone over best practices and troubleshooting techniques for data collection and the Grafana stack. We have looked at ways to avoid the pitfalls of observability as a whole, wrapping the chapter up with a look at future trends in application monitoring. These sections should have given you insights that will support your observability platform being a success, and help you get value from your platform for your users quicker and more efficiently. Now that we’ve completed the final chapter in our journey together through Observability with Grafana, let’s take a moment to review our key learnings.

In the first part of the book, we introduced observability and Grafana, along with a look at application and infrastructure instrumentation. We closed that part by setting up the OpenTelemetry demonstration application in your own Kubernetes environment.

In part two, we worked through different telemetry types that you will encounter with Grafana...