Observability Playgrounds

Remote sandbox environments for learning and experimentation — without setup or cleanup. Launch fresh Linux VMs, Docker hosts, or Kubernetes clusters in seconds, publish ports, share terminal sessions, and connect over SSH.

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Tetragon

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

This playground was created by an iximiuz Labs user and is provided with no warranty.

Playground on Linux, Observability

Doom Perf Lab

by Adam Leskis

Explore live host CPU/Memory/Disk/Network telemetry as an interactive Doom diagnostics lab. All the elements in the game react to system signals (eg, the cpu cores glow red when there's high utilization).

This playground was created by an iximiuz Labs user and is provided with no warranty.

Playground on Kubernetes, Observability

HotROD + Jaeger on K3s

by Ivan Velichko

Jaeger's HotROD demo app pre-deployed on a 3-node K3s cluster, wired to a Jaeger v2 all-in-one over OTLP. Click a customer, then read the trace.

This playground was created by an iximiuz Labs user and is provided with no warranty.

Playground on Kubernetes, Observability

OpenTelemetry Demo on k3s

by Ivan Velichko

A snapshot-backed three-node k3s cluster with the complete OpenTelemetry Demo, including Jaeger and Grafana.

This playground was created by an iximiuz Labs user and is provided with no warranty.

Playground on Linux, Networking, Observability

USE Practice

by Adam Leskis

Practice Linux USE-method investigations against randomized host-level scenarios. 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.

This playground was created by an iximiuz Labs user and is provided with no warranty.

Playground on Kubernetes, Observability

Cloud Tracing Lab

by Adam Leskis

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.

This playground was prepared by a vendor partner and proudly hosted by iximiuz Labs.

Playground on Cloud, Kubernetes, Observability

VictoriaMetrics on Kubernetes

by Márk Sági-Kazár

VictoriaMetrics Operator on a multi-node Kubernetes cluster.

This playground was prepared by a vendor partner and proudly hosted by iximiuz Labs.

Playground on Cloud, Observability

VictoriaMetrics Cluster

by Márk Sági-Kazár

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

This playground was prepared by a vendor partner and proudly hosted by iximiuz Labs.

Playground on Cloud, Observability

VictoriaMetrics

by Márk Sági-Kazár

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

This playground was created by an iximiuz Labs user and is provided with no warranty.

Playground on Linux, Networking, Observability

Ubuntu eBPF

by Başar Subaşı

Experimental playground with out of the box eBPF support through BTF

This playground was created by an iximiuz Labs user and is provided with no warranty.

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.