Troubleshooting, Implementing Best Practices, and More with Grafana
We are nearing the end of our journey in Observability with Grafana, so this is a good time to revisit some of the things we have learned. In this chapter, we will review the best practices for data collection and look at troubleshooting techniques that can help get your telemetry into Grafana. We will then move on to the Grafana stack for more best practices and troubleshooting with your telemetry backend, alerts, and dashboards. We will identify some of the pitfalls of observability and how to avoid them. Then, before wrapping up, we will look to the future and explore potential trends on the horizon.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- Best practices and troubleshooting for data collection
- Best practices and troubleshooting for the Grafana stack
- Avoiding pitfalls of observability
- Future trends in application monitoring