Meet TamaGROTchi: The first fully observable digital pet
- Tuesday, 21 April
- 17:40
- 10 minutes
- Main
- Session
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Why did original digital pets fail? No telemetry, no alerting, no incident response.
Now imagine if they had:
- Metrics for hunger, mood, energy
- Logs when they evolve
- Alerts routed through IRM
- On-call rotations for caretakers
Meet TamaGrotChi: the fully observable digital pet. TamaGrotChi is the first fully instrumented digital lifeform. This WiFi-enabled pet is powered by OpenTelemetry and reports its hunger, happiness, and emotional instability straight into Grafana Cloud.
Every button press is a trace.
Every ignored cry for attention is a log.
Every missed feeding window is a measurable SLO violation.
If you think you understand alert fatigue now, wait until Grot starts escalating to IRM because you breached the Mean Time To Feed.
Speakers
Nick Downton
Senior Observability Architect — Grafana Labs
Chris Lawliss
Senior Data Analytics Engineer — Grafana Labs