From the course: Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry
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Viewing metrics in Grafana - OpenTelemetry Tutorial
From the course: Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry
Viewing metrics in Grafana
- [Instructor] I did cast my votes and I hope you did as well. I'm not back on the landing page of Grafana and there I go to the menu and select explore. There, I make sure that the selector is on the Prometheus, so the prom data source. So make sure that this is the case for you, of course, with your instance name. So I'm selecting this. Now, I can take a look at the list of metrics. So I click on select metric and there are plenty of metrics already there that we didn't report. As you see here, many are prefixed with traces. These are metrics that were extracted from our trace data. Think of trace durations, you can infer them from the span data. These metrics are what drive the service dashboards we looked at before. We also have time series that start with system. These are system metrics from the host where the Collector runs on. For instance, I can look at the CPU average of this host. So these are already solid host metrics, and when your Collector runs on the same host as your…
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