KubeCon Demo: A Preview of Grafana & Jaeger

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in San Diego, Grafana Labs showcased a demo of an upcoming feature for Grafana that introduces distributed tracing datasources, enhancing observability by integrating tracing with existing metrics and logs. The demo featured a dashboard for a simple three-tier application, where periodic errors in the app tier could be analyzed by seamlessly switching between metrics, logs, and traces. This integration is facilitated by shared telemetry metadata and consistent logging of trace IDs, enabling correlation between metrics and logs. A new experimental Jaeger datasource allows internal linking of trace IDs, while external links from matched patterns in Loki have been available since Grafana v6.5 beta. The aim is to eventually provide native visualization of traces in Grafana, supporting a variety of distributed tracing systems beyond Jaeger. The demo highlighted the use of a Docker compose file for running the components together and invited feedback from users trying out the setup.

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