From the course: Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry
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Why Grafana? - OpenTelemetry Tutorial
From the course: Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry
Why Grafana?
- [Instructor] So far we have been using Jaeger, but in this chapter we will shift gears and use Grafana. Grafana is an observability solution that is available as open source version that can be installed locally or as a hosted software as a service solution. Grafana is well known for its metrics solution, but added solid observability capabilities in the last two years. I have to say that I'm not affiliated with that company. Sometimes they even were a competitor. There are just a few good reasons to use it in this course. First of all, Jaeger supports only traces, so we had to switch now because we now also want to do metrics and logs, and I chose Grafana now because there's an open source version available, so that's good. It offers a free hosted plan that is fully sufficient for this course, and it's also at this point, the most ideomatic solution when it comes to open telemetry while also checking the boxes above. In the end, this course is about OpenTelemetry, which is…
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