Logging Best Practices (Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OTel Community Call #3)

We’re back with a new Grafana ❤️‍🔥 OpenTelemetry Community Call episode, and this time we’re diving into logging with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Loki!

Even better, we’re joined by two fantastic guests: Jack Berg, OTel logging expert, and Ed Welch, Loki guru. Getting both of them in one conversation makes for an amazing deep-dive into all things logging.

Logs come in every shape and size, from simple CLI output to massive distributed systems generating petabytes of structured data. In this episode, we’ll talk about:

🔹The OTel story around logging, and whether we really need a new approach
🔹What structured logs are and why they matter
🔹How to think about rich identifiers like user_id and how to work with them in Loki
🔹Where OTel logging is headed and what it does take to support it on the backends
Join us for a great conversation - and bring your logging questions!

This event will be livestreamed on YouTube and published on the same link after the fact: https://www.youtube.com/live/D-bWeY-gBWU