Observability Playgrounds

Remote sandbox environments for learning and experimenting without worrying about setup and cleanup. Run anything on vanilla Linux VMs, get a fresh Docker host or Kubernetes cluster in seconds, publish ports, collaborate via sharing terminal sessions, SSH from the command line, and more.

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Category
Playground on  ObservabilitySecurity

Tetragon

A 3-in-1 playground (Kubernetes, Docker, and vanilla Linux hosts) to experiment with Tetragon - an eBFP-powered security observability tool.

Playground on  LinuxNetworkingObservability

USE Practice

Practice Linux USE-method investigations against randomized host-level scenarios. Run `use-practice` to see what the options are, and put some load on the system to practice your USE methodology investigation skills. It already has the use-tool (https://github.com/lpmi-13/use-tool) installed, so you can begin with that, or just run a free-form investigation.

Playground on  KubernetesObservability

Cloud Tracing Lab

Diagnose realistic distributed tracing scenarios in a preloaded k3s VM, for users to get more familiar with traces in general and jaeger-ui specifically. There's guided investigation through distributed traces, along with identification of slow spans and comparing two traces to identify what changed to make it slow down.

Playground on  CloudKubernetesObservability

VictoriaMetrics on Kubernetes

VictoriaMetrics Operator on a multi-node Kubernetes cluster.

Playground on  CloudObservability

VictoriaMetrics Cluster

A multi-node VictoriaMetrics cluster with vminsert, vmselect, and vmstorage components.

Playground on  CloudObservability

VictoriaMetrics

A fast, cost-effective, and scalable time-series database and monitoring solution.

Playground on  LinuxNetworkingObservability

Ubuntu eBPF

Experimental playground with out of the box eBPF support through BTF

Playground on  Observability

ELK Stack

This is a hands-on ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) playground enhanced with Docker and Beats to simulate real-world log and observability scenarios. It includes an Elastic Cluster (es-node-01 and es-node-02) for storing and indexing data, a test-node-03 running Docker with Filebeat, Metricbeat, and Heartbeat for log and metric collection, and kibana-node-04 for visualizing everything via Kibana UI—perfect for learning and experimentation.