Observability with logs & Grafana
Description
Do you use logs to observe your applications? Are you trying to use logs to monitor applications that don’t have metrics? Logs are an invaluable insight into the health and operations of your applications, but we all struggle at times to manage the scale and complexity of your application logs. There is good news, however, because Grafana can help!
Join us for a three-part session to learn how you can utilize, manage, and visualize log events with Grafana and Grafana’s logging application Loki. We’ll also show you how to apply our new Grafana Cloud Alerting to your Loki logs. Finally, we’ll showcase a few log data source plugins so you can up-level your organization’s logging strategy.
Some areas of focus:
- New Loki features: significant improvements to the LogQL query language, generate alerts directly from logs, and new operational capabilities.
- How to create Prometheus-style alerts for Loki logs
- How to leverage existing investments in logging solutions such as Splunk to create enterprise-ready dashboards in Grafana.
We are working on recovering the Q&A portion of this session, check back for updates.
Speakers
Ed Welch
Principal Software Engineer
Grafana Labs
Ed has a varied history of software development, including robotic control systems, vehicle fleet tracking, and telecom middleware. He has worked in both startups and large enterprises, and now finds himself at Grafana Labs, where he is the tech lead for the Loki project, an open source logs aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.
Ximena Aliaguilla
Senior Customer Success Engineer
Grafana Labs
Ximena is a Customer Success Engineer for the self-service offering of Grafana Cloud. She speaks and works with both users and internal Grafana teams to find the most common and essential uses for Grafana Cloud and bridge knowledge gaps, so that we can build the best tools, guides, and features that allow users to get up and running quickly and easily.
Christine Wang
Solutions Engineer Manager
Grafana Labs
Christine is a Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs, where she brings the people element to technical integrations. After joining her first tech startup over 12 years ago, she’s worked in a variety of user-centric roles for SaaS, ad tech, developer platform, and data companies. When she’s not evangelizing why everyone should use Grafana, you can find her making curry stew every Thursday night and browsing Ikea’s online catalogue for the fifth time this week.
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