Name: Logs, Metrics, Traces and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure Game - Jay Clifford & Tom Glenn, Grafana Labs
Start: 2025-04-02T17:45:00+0100
End: 2025-04-02T18:15:00+0100

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1-4 April 2025
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Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Have you ever wanted to play an actual game on your observability stack? Well, you can. Not only does Doom run on Grafana, we also built an actual text-based adventure game.

Join us to play a real text-based Observability adventure game! Armed with the tools of the trade—metrics, logs, and traces—you’ll learn to navigate the labyrinth of debugging and optimization, rescuing your application from the clutches of the dark wizard!

In this interactive session, we will dive into a game played live to showcase how each telemetry type is used to solve real-world Observability challenges. As players encounter obstacles, they’ll wield the power of OpenTelemetry to gather critical data and use OSS tools like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus to make informed decisions.

Whether you’re an observability novice or a seasoned engineer, this talk will level up your debugging skills and showcase how to gamify observability training for your team. So, gear up, adventurer—your quest awaits!

Speakers

Jay Clifford

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Jay Clifford is a Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, specializing in Loki. Jay leads the Interactive Sandbox Initiative, designed to enhance Grafana's documentation and provide hands-on learning experiences within the observability space. Previously, Jay worked as a Developer Advocate... Read More →

Tom Glenn

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Tom is a software engineer, developer advocate, and game developer with 17 years of experience. He specializes in full-stack software development, backend game systems, and game development in Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot. At Grafana Labs, Tom improves the developer experience... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Jay Clifford

Tom Glenn

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