Grafana Observability in Practice: Build Production-Ready Monitoring Platforms with Grafana 13, OpenTelemetry, Alloy, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, Kubernetes, GitOps, SLOs, and AI - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Build a complete, production-ready observability platform with Grafana 13 and the modern Grafana ecosystem.

Grafana Observability in Practice is a hands-on guide to designing, deploying, securing, and operating full-stack monitoring platforms for modern applications, Kubernetes clusters, cloud services, databases, networks, and AI infrastructure.

Instead of treating dashboards, logs, metrics, traces, and profiles as separate tools, this book shows you how to combine them into one practical operating system for reliability engineering.

You will learn how to:

• Deploy and secure Grafana 13 with PostgreSQL, TLS, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC, backups, and high availability
• Build production metrics pipelines with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana Alloy, and Grafana Mimir
• Centralize and query logs with Loki and LogQL
• Instrument distributed applications with OpenTelemetry and investigate traces with Tempo and TraceQL
• Diagnose CPU, memory, allocation, and code-level performance problems with Pyroscope
• Correlate metrics, logs, traces, profiles, deployments, and incidents in Grafana
• Monitor Kubernetes clusters, Linux systems, Docker workloads, databases, networks, cloud services, and GPUs
• Implement zero-code application observability with Grafana Beyla and eBPF
• Capture frontend errors, Web Vitals, sessions, and user journeys with Grafana Faro
• Create synthetic checks and performance tests with Grafana k6
• Design actionable alerts, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and multi-window burn-rate alerts
• Build on-call, escalation, incident-response, and post-incident workflows
• Manage dashboards, alerts, collectors, and platform configuration with Git Sync, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, and CI/CD
• Control telemetry cardinality, retention, storage, and cost
• Use Grafana Assistant and the Grafana MCP server through controlled, human-approved AI workflows
• Test upgrades, backups, scaling, failover, disaster recovery, and production readiness

Every chapter follows a practical engineering workflow:

WHY → HOW → IMPLEMENT → BREAK IT → FIX IT → VALIDATE IT

You will not only deploy the platform—you will deliberately break application services, telemetry pipelines, databases, collectors, trace propagation, storage access, dashboards, and alert routes. You will then diagnose the failures using correlated telemetry, recover the environment, and confirm that reliability has been restored.

The final capstone brings everything together into a complete Kubernetes-hosted observability platform with Grafana, Alloy, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, OpenTelemetry, Beyla, Faro, k6, PostgreSQL, GitOps, SLOs, incident response, cost governance, and AI-assisted investigation.

This book is ideal for:

• DevOps and platform engineers
• Site reliability engineers
• Cloud and Kubernetes administrators
• Observability engineers
• Backend and application developers
• Infrastructure and network engineers
• Technical leads building internal monitoring platforms
• Homelab and self-hosting professionals moving toward production-grade operations

Whether you are replacing fragmented monitoring tools, modernizing a Prometheus deployment, building an LGTM stack, or creating an enterprise observability platform, Grafana Observability in Practice gives you the architecture, implementation patterns, troubleshooting methods, and operational discipline needed to build a platform that is secure, scalable, recoverable, cost-aware, and ready for production.

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