Setting OpenTelemetry to Send Metrics and Traces to Grafana Cloud

Observability is essential for the understanding how your system behaves and for ensuring reliable performance and a solid user experience. As systems grow and evolve there is the need for consistent, vendor-neutral observability tooling, especially when switching between different observability platform providers. Cost is often a key concern as your usage increases, what seemed like an affordable package when you started with low user volumes can quickly become expensive as usave scales up.

Monitoring Kubernetes metrics with Grafana and Prometheus

Grafana is an open observability platform that gives your team a centralised view on the health and behaviour of your system. We'll use Kubernetes metrics to quickly spin up some dashboards and provide foundations to experiment and learn more about Grafana.