Supporting DevOps Processes with Observability

This chapter will discuss the use of Grafana in two different aspects of the technology industry – software delivery and platform operations.

We will briefly introduce you to the DevOps life cycle as valuable foundational knowledge. Using this framework, we will guide you through the value of Grafana in each phase to enrich the software development process in your organization. We encourage you to spend time understanding where bottlenecks are in this process and focus resources on the most appropriate phase for your team or organization.

Platform operations are typified by using third-party applications. This removes about half of the DevOps life cycle, as those stages are conducted by a third party. You will be introduced to the considerations you should make for using Grafana during the deployment and operation of several types of platforms. We will look at collecting data from data collection tools in an observability...