Application Monitoring with Grafana and OpenTelemetry

Length: 45 minutes

Room: Room 6

Abstract

OpenTelemetry is a collection of standards and tools to make it easy to get metrics, distributed traces, and logs out of applications. For example, OpenTelemetry's Java agent will instrument Java applications out-of-the-box, with no code change required. This talk shows how to use these signals for application monitoring. We will introduce Grafana's open source databases: Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics. And we will show how to use Grafana to explore the telemetry data for an example application running on Kubernetes. Grafana and Prometheus metrics have been popular among platform engineers for monitoring Kubernetes clusters for a long time. this talk will show how application developers can benefit from Grafana as well, using open standards like OpenTelemetry, and open source monitoring backends like Loki, Tempo, and Mimir.

Day & time

Wednesday, September 06, 10:20 – 11:05 AM

Intended audience

This is for Java developers who want to learn how to monitor their applications with OpenTelemetry and Grafana.

• Fabian Stäber

  Dr. Fabian Stäber is engineering manager and monitoring enthusiast at Grafana. He is a member of the Prometheus open source project, where he is maintainer of the Prometheus Java client library and the JMX exporter. At Grafana Fabian has his focus on application monitoring with OpenTelemetry.