Bootstrapping a cloud native multi-data center observability stack

Bram Vogelaar, a DevOps Cloud Engineer, discusses the importance of a multi-data center observability stack to ensure high availability and resilience against disasters, such as the fire at an OVHcloud data center that caused significant outages. He describes the process of evolving a single observability stack to a cloud-native, multi-data center setup, using tools like Grafana Tempo and Loki for tracing and logging, while integrating Consul for service discovery across data centers. The configuration includes utilizing MySQL for database replication, employing Consul for Prometheus service discovery, and setting up Grafana Agent to proxy data to multiple Tempo instances. Vogelaar emphasizes the need for configurations that allow seamless failover between data centers, ensuring continuous observability without service interruption, and highlights the collaborative aspects of the Grafana community for improvements and knowledge sharing.