Observability Workshop with Grafana Cloud

• Observability Workshop with Grafana Cloud
  • Prerequisites
  • LAB 01 : Deploy the Agent Grafana Alloy & Use Kubernetes Observability
  • LAB 02 : Deploy Microservices & send data
  • LAB 03 : Finding root cause with Grafana Cloud
• Appendix

Prerequisites

Make sure you have your credentials to access webtty & grafana cloud stack

• Grafana Cloud Stack : https://USERID.grafana.net

• WebTTY ssh console : https://WORKSHOPID.work-shop.grafana.net

LAB 01 : Deploy the Agent Grafana Alloy & Use Kubernetes Observability

1. Open a terminal to the environement in a browser to https://WORKSHOPID.work-shop.grafana.net with the received credentials

2. Open Grafana in a browser https://USERID.work-shop.grafana.net with the received credentials

3. In Grafana Cloud UI, Activate application observability

4. Navigate to Infrastructure -> Kubernetes.

5. Click on Start Sending Data
6. Click on Install
7. Fill in cluster information

to get cluster name in webtty

kubectl config view --minify -o jsonpath='{.clusters[0].name}' && echo

Cluster name : WORKSHOPID-USERID Namespace : agents Tick option : Grafana Application Observability

1. Name the token k8stelemetry Cick on create new token

8. Copy Helm command and run in webtty

9. Check if agent pods are running in webtty

kubectl get pods -n agents

expected results

$ kubectl get pods -n agents

NAME                                                         READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
grafana-k8s-monitoring-alloy-0                               2/2     Running   0          5m32s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-alloy-events-86cd889b7-wckgv          2/2     Running   0          5m32s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-alloy-logs-257qr                      2/2     Running   0          5m33s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-alloy-logs-7d5w8                      2/2     Running   0          5m33s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-alloy-logs-f7szw                      2/2     Running   0          5m33s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-kepler-mb92c                          1/1     Running   0          5m31s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-kepler-tgjgp                          1/1     Running   0          5m30s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-kepler-x9nvx                          1/1     Running   0          5m30s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-kube-state-metrics-5d9bd787cc-56kjc   1/1     Running   0          5m32s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-opencost-7645f5d9d-hhpd9              1/1     Running   0          5m32s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-prometheus-node-exporter-llsbc        1/1     Running   0          5m33s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-prometheus-node-exporter-qg27t        1/1     Running   0          5m33s
grafana-k8s-monitoring-prometheus-node-exporter-w84vm        1/1     Running   0          5m33s

10. check Kubernetes Monitoring App

LAB 02 : Deploy Microservices & send data

Architecture of microservices apps

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1. In the web tty, deploy all services

kubectl create ns apps

kubectl -n apps apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/k8s-appo11y-workshop/refs/heads/master/microservices/room-availability/deploy-faulty.yaml

kubectl -n apps apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/k8s-appo11y-workshop/refs/heads/master/microservices/email-channel/deploy.yaml

kubectl -n apps apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/k8s-appo11y-workshop/refs/heads/master/microservices/sms-channel/deploy.yaml

kubectl -n apps apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/k8s-appo11y-workshop/refs/heads/master/microservices/booking-notification/deploy.yaml

kubectl -n apps apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/k8s-appo11y-workshop/refs/heads/master/microservices/booking-hub/deploy.yaml

kubectl -n apps apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/k8s-appo11y-workshop/refs/heads/master/k6/k6.yaml

2. Explore Application Observability

LAB 03 : Finding root cause with Grafana Cloud

Appendix

deploy non buggy component

kubectl -n apps apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/k8s-appo11y-workshop/refs/heads/master/microservices/room-availability/deploy-success.yaml