Getting Started with Grafana-Flavored OpenTelemetry Setup for Nomad

Discover how to eliminate blind spots in your applications with this 39-minute talk that introduces OpenTelemetry fundamentals and demonstrates setting up a Grafana-flavored observability stack on HashiCorp Nomad. Learn about implementing Grafana Alloy as an OpenTelemetry collector and see how Loki, Tempo, and Mimir work together to handle logs, traces, and metrics in a unified system. Explore how the Nomad admission controller simplifies instrumented deployments through automatic environment variable injection. Presented by Max Fröhlich, this session provides practical knowledge for both Nomad beginners and experienced users to effectively monitor application performance and quickly diagnose issues in your infrastructure.