If you use Hugo to create a blog or website, as I do, and you use GitHub Pages to host the blog, it’s hard to get observability signals in your usual observability stack. I have been using Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Prometheus for a long time, so using this stack makes sense to me. You can use Google Analytics with Hugo, but I don’t like third party cookies. If you search for Google Analytics' and GDPR’ you will find quite a few articles about the concerns that exist on this topic.

I am passionate about Observability already for a long time. Monitoring tools have been helping me already for quite some years to get insights in the behavior of a service and especially a landscape of services. In 2016 I was working at a project where we were facing a number of problems and didn’t really have a clue what was going on in our application landscape. I suggested to work on more insights and we stared using Telegraf, InfluxDB, Prometheus and Grafana.