Getting started with Drupal Observability using OpenTelemetry and Grafana
Time: Thursday 14th May 11:10-11:40
Room: Te Aro
Track: Web Tools & Complementary Technologies
Drupal can be a complex codebase and issues can be challenging to diagnose. Fortunately, tooling for Observability (o11y) is available, to give you greater insight into application behaviour. We've been exploring observability using OpenTelemetry (OT) and Grafana to expose Drupal metrics, logs, and traces. This talk introduces observability concepts, outlines how OpenTelemetry can be implemented in Drupal, and how Grafana can aggregate logs and display key application metrics and traces. We'll show how to generate custom metrics, parse logs, and gain new understanding of what is happening "under the hood".
Speakers
Jonathan Hunt, Chris Burgess
Jonathan is a senior developer with experience in Drupal since 4.7, Islandora digital repositories, open data, and standards. Through work with University of Canterbury, Simon Fraser University, National Library NZ, Ministry for Culture & Heritage, Christchurch City Libraries, Archives Central and others, he has demonstrated data management and linked data knowledge along with contribution to open source and civic tech initiatives.
Additional speakersChris is thinking about resiliency, data and community. He's based in Ĺtepoti, Te Waipounamu. Chris is a developer with Catalyst.NET