You're reading from Observability with Grafana Monitor, control, and visualize your Kubernetes and cloud platforms using the LGTM stack

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248004

Length 356 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Grafana

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Rob Chapman

Peter Holmes

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Get Started with Grafana and Observability

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Observability and the Grafana Stack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Instrumenting Applications and Infrastructure

4. Chapter 3: Setting Up a Learning Environment with Demo Applications

5. Part 2: Implement Telemetry in Grafana

6. Chapter 4: Looking at Logs with Grafana Loki

7. Chapter 5: Monitoring with Metrics Using Grafana Mimir and Prometheus

8. Chapter 6: Tracing Technicalities with Grafana Tempo

9. Chapter 7: Interrogating Infrastructure with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Azure

10. Part 3: Grafana in Practice

11. Chapter 8: Displaying Data with Dashboards

12. Chapter 9: Managing Incidents Using Alerts

13. Chapter 10: Automation with Infrastructure as Code

14. Chapter 11: Architecting an Observability Platform

15. Part 4: Advanced Applications and Best Practices of Grafana

16. Chapter 12: Real User Monitoring with Grafana

17. Chapter 13: Application Performance with Grafana Pyroscope and k6

18. Chapter 14: Supporting DevOps Processes with Observability

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting, Implementing Best Practices, and More with Grafana

20. Index

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Installing the prerequisite tools

Grafana is much more exciting with data! To build a realistic view of how Grafana works and can help your organization, we have chosen to install the OpenTelemetry demo application. This is a demonstration web store that sells telescopes and other observational equipment. We’ll take you through the installation process to get this running locally on your machine.

But first, there are a few prerequisites that your local environment has, and they depend on the operating system you use.

In this section, we will explain how to install the following:

Tools based on your operating system:
- Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2)
- macOS Homebrew
Docker or Podman
A single-node Kubernetes cluster
Helm

Installing WSL2

WSL is a way of running a Linux filesystem and tools directly on Windows. This is used to give a standard set of commands and tools across operating systems. It is possible to run these systems outside...

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