Logs, Metrics, Traces and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure Game
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 17:45· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F·
summary
A playable text adventure is built as a Python script instrumented with the OpenTelemetry SDK and routed through an OTLP collector into Prometheus, Loki and Tempo feeding a Grafana dashboard. The demo recreates a molten-forge bug, a log entry saying "the sword whispers I killed them" and a trace made of spans that shows the 8m27s run score, plus exemplars tying metric events to trace IDs, proving the game and telemetry pipeline actually work. text-based adventure game OpenTelemetry Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:22What is observability
- 3:46Complexity and failure
- 5:31Metrics, logs, traces
- 8:24Adventure demo begins
- 15:06Debugging in the game
- 17:35Correlating telemetry
- 19:42Building the game
- 23:15Grafana and OpenTelemetry
- 24:17Key takeaways
- 25:21Try the game
- 26:23Q&A
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