For more and more open source observability tools SaaS offerings are emerging. This bridges the gap to commercial offerings as we are now finally able to test open source tools in depth without actually installing them!

In this workshop we’ll test drive free tiers of some open source observability SaaS offerings like Grafana and Prometheus. We’ll also compare the open source offerings to commercial ones like New Relic, Datadog or Honeycomb.io. Using a synthetic setup we’ll discuss log management, metric storage, distributed tracing and pros and cons of observability SaaS offerings in general. Moreover we’ll compare how the offerings integrate those data silos (or not).

After this workshop you are going to have an overview of the leading observability tools in the market. You will have integrated each of them into a simple but realistic microservice infrastructure.

To attend the workshop you need a laptop with an SSH client and a browser and access to a working email address.