Cees Bos

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Observability enthusiast and Grafana Champion, always looking for ways to improve software with better observability and what new insights can be gained. Delivering reliable software is always my priority. Combining existing tools often results in new ways to get an even better view. I work for OpenValue as a software & observability engineer and SRE.
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    April 9-10, 2024
    Grafana Loki Traces Promtail logcli

    How visualizing logs converted to traces can uncover performance problems

    GrafanaCON

    April 9-10, 2024 - Amsterdam
    Talk details: https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/2024/transform-log-files-into-custom-traces-to-identify-performance-issues/

    Abstract

    Interruptions in a service and no clue why it happened? Visualizations help to identify problems and give more insight into how a service actually behaved. In some situations, logging is supported, but traces that can help find root cause are missing. What if you could turn logs into traces? In this talk, OpenValue Software Engineer and SRE Cees Bos will show how to transform log files from two interacting services into custom traces and load them into Grafana, identify problems that are not visible without created traces, and then verify that the subsequent fixes worked. Problem hunting isn’t always easy, but tools like Promtail, Loki, logcli, and the trace visualization in Grafana can be used to find issues in an uncommon way if the common way is not good enough.

    During GrafanaCON I presented by talk and I also introduced the topic ’explore traces’ during the Unconference track.

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