Open Dashboard and Visualization Workshop - Basic Perses Dashboard

Getting started with Perses

Back in December of 2022 I started a series taking you on a tour of the Perses project. These articles covered this fairly new open dashboard and visualization project targeting cloud native environments. I used a getting started workshop to guide you through this series and to provide a hands-on experience for those new to visualizing observability data. 

In the previous article I took you through the Perses specification and provided links to the actual online workshop content. 

In this article, you'll start using the Perses UI and visualizing data in your first ever dashboard. 

Let's start off slowly, shall we?

Open Dashboard and Visualization Workshop - The Perses Specification

Getting started with Perses

Back in December of 2022 I started a series taking you on a tour of the Perses project. These articles covered this fairly new open dashboard and visualization project targeting cloud native environments. I used a getting started workshop to guide you through this series and to provide a hands-on experience for those new to visualizing observability data. 

In the previous article I took you through the Perses API and provided links to the actual online workshop content. 

In this article, I'll walk you through the Perses data model and open specification for visualizing data in your dashboards. 

Let's dive right in, shall we?

Open Dashboard and Visualization Workshop - Exploring Perses API

Getting started with Perses

Back in December of 2022 I started a series taking you on a tour of the Perses project. These articles covered this fairly new open dashboard and visualization project targeting cloud native environments. I used a getting started workshop to guide you through this series and to provide a hands-on experience for those new to visualizing observability data. 

In the previous article I kicked off with an introduction to and installation of Perses and provided links to the actual online workshop content. 

In this article, I'll share a guided tour of the Perses application programming interface (API) and how you can interact with your Perses instance through its API.

Let's dive right in, shall we?

Open Dashboard and Visualization Workshop - Introduction and Installing Perses

Getting started with Perses

Back in December of 2022 I started a series taking you on a tour of the Perses project. These articles covered this fairly new open dashboard and visualization project targeting cloud native environments. I used a getting started workshop to guide you through this series and to provide a hands-on experience for those new to visualizing observability data. 

Being a developer from my early days in IT, it's been very interesting to explore the complexities of cloud native observability (o11y). Monitoring applications goes way beyond just writing and deploying code, especially in the cloud native world. One thing remains the same, maintaining your organization's architecture always requires both a vigilant outlook and an understanding of available open standards.

Now that it's almost a year since my last dive into Perses, let's revisit this workshop and explore the latest release. If you tried the first iteration of this workshop, found in this repository tag, you'll remember that it was a lot of diving into JSON. This time around the UI has been flushed out so that many of the tasks you need to design projects, dashboards, datasources, and more are a smoothly guided experience.

Let's see what's new, shall we?

KCD Denmark - Observability for You and Me with OpenTelemetry (slides)

As I previously posted, I couldn't pass up on the first ever Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) in Denmark today.

It was exciting to see that this event provided slots for workshops as well as normal sessions as you can see in the program.

I presented on OpenTelemetry in the morning from the main stage and below you can find the slides along with the session abstract.

KubeCon NA 2023 - Roadmap to Becoming a CNCF Ambassador (slides)

Today I was on site at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) bi-annual event known as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA in Chicago.

As previously posted, one of my sessions was accepted this year and today I co-presented with Katie Greenley, who leads Community Engagement + Outreach, CNCF for the Ambassador program!

It was a really good time and being on stage with our very own Katie who is pretty much the Queen organizer all year round for our community and consistently exceeds expectations in communication and shepherding ambassadors all over the globe.

Below you will find the slides for our session and other details.