Using Grafana to monitor infrastructure and platforms

Teams who work with third-party infrastructure and platforms are well supported by the tools from Grafana and OpenTelemetry. We’ll consider a few major types of platforms; observability, CI, CD, infrastructure and resource, and finally, security platforms. The deploy, operate, monitor, and plan phases should all be understood for these platforms and the points made in the previous section for these phases are relevant to these kinds of platform products. Let’s start by considering observability platforms.

Observability platforms

Teams who manage observability platforms have a responsibility to offer a platform that demonstrates best practices by having well-documented SLIs and SLOs, easy-to-find dashboards, and a dependable incident management process.

Helpfully, there are dashboards available through the Grafana Dashboards community portal that provide very detailed views of the OpenTelemetry Collector and...