DOP 279: Exploring Grafana Alloy

Episode 279

Show Notes

#279: One topic continues to emerge in conversations about technology and observability—OpenTelemetry. It’s clear that OpenTelemetry has become fundamental in the tech industry.

In this episode, we talk with Paschalis Tsilias, a software engineer with Grafana, about Alloy, a vendor-neutral distribution of the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector.

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Paschalis Tsilias

Paschalis Tsilias

Paschalis is a software engineer with experience in multiple environments; from academic research projects in neutrino cosmology to supply chain optimization in a startup and building growth tools for the ride-hailing industry. He enjoys motorsports and brewing beer. Currently, he works for Grafana Labs, where he’s building performant, programmable, vendor-neutral observability pipelines.

Hosts

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and published author.

His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.

He has published DevOps Paradox and Test-Driven Java Development.

His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog The DevOps Toolkit.