Reaching Operational Excellence using OpenTelemetry
summary
Demonstrates a working Flappy-Bird demo called Tracy Bird instrumented with OpenTelemetry Collector, using a Java agent for Kotlin services and a .NET agent for the admin service, exporting to Grafana Cloud (Loki for logs, M for metrics, Tempo for traces). Generates thousands of traces in minutes, shows a high score trace (10) and that max load tested was two users, and the dashboards and trace-to-log linking work with almost zero config—surprisingly reliable end-to-end.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speakers
- 3:39What is operational excellence
- 12:57Introducing OpenTelemetry
- 17:15Performance cost of observability
- 20:49Demo architecture overview
- 23:58Starting the Flappy Bird demo
- 27:04Analyzing traces and logs
- 29:53Making dashboards fun
- 30:36Finding your own way
- 31:41Q&A session
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