grafana · hedss · Jun 28, 2025
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ jobs:
                       context: source
                       service: mythical-beasts-recorder
                       setup-qemu: true
+                    - file: source/mythical-beasts-frontend/Dockerfile
+                      tag_suffix: mythical-beasts-frontend
+                      context: source/mythical-beasts-frontend
+                      service: mythical-beasts-frontend
+                      setup-qemu: true
 
         steps:
             - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This readme has the following sections:
     - [Tempo](#tempo)
     - [Pyroscope](#pyroscope)
     - [k6](#k6)
+    - [Faro Web SDK](#faro-web-sdk)
     - [Beyla](#beyla)
     - [Grafana Alloy](#grafana-alloy)
       - [Metrics Generation](#metrics-generation)
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ The demos from this series were based on the application and code in this reposi
   * A REST API server that receives requests and utilises a Database for storing/retrieving data for those requests.
   * A recorder service for storing messages to an AMQP bus.
   * A Postgres Database for storing/retrieving data from.
+  * A React-based frontend web interface for managing the REST API server.
 * k6 service running a load test against the above application.
 * Tempo service for storing and querying trace information.
 * Loki service for storing and querying log information.
@@ -89,10 +91,11 @@ To execute the environment and login:
    ```
    - "3123:3000"
    ```
-3. Navigate to the [MLT dashboard](http://localhost:3000/d/ed4f4709-4d3b-48fd-a311-a036b85dbd5b/mlt-dashboard?orgId=1&refresh=5s).
-4. Explore the data sources using the [Grafana Explorer](http://localhost:3000/explore?orgId=1&left=%7B%22datasource%22:%22Mimir%22,%22queries%22:%5B%7B%22refId%22:%22A%22%7D%5D,%22range%22:%7B%22from%22:%22now-1h%22,%22to%22:%22now%22%7D%7D).
+3. Access the service frontend at http://localhost:3001/ to interact with the data management interface. This will produce Faro session telemetry.
+4. Navigate to the [MLT dashboard](http://localhost:3000/d/ed4f4709-4d3b-48fd-a311-a036b85dbd5b/mlt-dashboard?orgId=1&refresh=5s).
+5. Explore the data sources using the [Grafana Explorer](http://localhost:3000/explore?orgId=1&left=%7B%22datasource%22:%22Mimir%22,%22queries%22:%5B%7B%22refId%22:%22A%22%7D%5D,%22range%22:%7B%22from%22:%22now-1h%22,%22to%22:%22now%22%7D%7D).
 
-The [pre-provisioned dashboard](grafana/definitions/mlt.json) demonstrates a [RED (Rate, Error, Duration)](https://grafana.com/blog/2018/08/02/the-red-method-how-to-instrument-your-services/) overview of the microservice application, where almost all metrics are being generated via trace spans. The dashboard also provides an example of logging.
+The [pre-provisioned dashboards](grafana/definitions/mlt.json) demonstrates a [RED (Rate, Error, Duration)](https://grafana.com/blog/2018/08/02/the-red-method-how-to-instrument-your-services/) overview of the microservice application, where almost all metrics are being generated via trace spans. The dashboard also provides an example of logging.
 
 [Data links](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/configure-data-links/), [exemplars](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/data-configuration/traces/exemplars/), and logs are utilized to allow jumping from the dashboard to a Grafana Explore page to observe traces, metrics, and logs in more detail.
 
@@ -199,6 +202,15 @@ k6 can run one of more VU (Virtual Users) concurrently, to simulate parallel loa
 
 k6 will generate [metrics](https://k6.io/docs/using-k6/metrics/) about the tests that it carries out, and will send these to the running Mimir instance. These metrics can then be used to determine the latencies of endpoints, number of errors occurring, etc. The official Grafana dashboard for k6 is included, and once the sandbox is running, may be found [here](http://localhost:3000/d/01npcT44k/official-k6-test-result?orgId=1&refresh=10s).
 
+### Faro Web SDK
+
+The Faro Web SDK is a Grafana component that collects observability telemetry from within a web application and emits it to a relevant collector. This can be the likes of Grafana Alloy or directly to Grafana Cloud's Frontend endpoint. For more details about Faro Web SDK, read the [documentation](https://github.com/grafana/faro-web-sdk).
+
+In the Intro to MLTP repository, Faro instruments the frontend service described in the `mythical-frontend` section of the [`docker-compose.yml`](docker-compose.yml) manifest, with source in the [`source/mythical-beasts-frontend`](source/mythical-beasts-frontend) directory.
+Note that this service is optional, and is only currently available in the local Alloy-based Docker Compose manifest. The OpenTelemetry Collector does not receive Faro telemetry.
+
+Faro is designed to continue to propagate data across frontend sessions to backend server infrastructure, and as such includes the ability to send relevant state information in headers. For traces, this is based open the OpenTelemetry Tracing Specification, and utilises the `tracestate` and `traceparent` headers to propagate data. In the case of this example, this will show traces starting in the `mythical-frontend` service.
+
 ### Beyla
 
 Beyla is an eBPF-based tool for generating metrics and trace data without the need for application instrumentation. For more details about Beyla, read the [documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/beyla/).

@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ loki.process "mythical" {
     forward_to = [loki.write.mythical.receiver]
 }
 
+// Write out to the appropriate Loki instance.
 loki.write "mythical" {
     // Output the Loki log to the local Loki instance.
     endpoint {
@@ -163,6 +164,35 @@ loki.write "mythical" {
     }
 }
 
+// The Loki processor for Faro frontend logs
+loki.process "faro" {
+    // Add labels to identify frontend logs
+    stage.static_labels {
+        values = {
+            job = "mythical-frontend",
+            group = "mythical",
+            service_name = "mythical-frontend",
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Forward to the Faro Loki writer for output
+    forward_to = [loki.write.mythical.receiver]
+}
+
+
+/*loki.write "faro" {
+    // Output the Faro logs to the local Loki instance
+    endpoint {
+        url = json_path(local.file.endpoints.content, ".logs.url")[0]
+
+        // The basic auth credentials for the Loki instance
+        basic_auth {
+            username = json_path(local.file.endpoints.content, ".logs.basicAuth.username")[0]
+            password = json_path(local.file.endpoints.content, ".logs.basicAuth.password")[0]
+        }
+    }
+}*/
+
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // Tracing
 
@@ -206,6 +236,26 @@ otelcol.receiver.otlp "otlp_receiver" {
     }
 }
 
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// Faro (Frontend Observability)
+
+// The Faro receiver is used to ingest frontend telemetry data from Grafana Faro SDK.
+// This includes traces, logs, measurements, and web vitals from browser applications.
+faro.receiver "frontend" {
+    // Listen for Faro data on port 12350 (custom port to avoid conflicts)
+    server {
+        listen_address = "0.0.0.0"
+        listen_port = 12350
+        cors_allowed_origins = ["*"]
+    }
+
+    // Forward all received data to the appropriate processors
+    output {
+        logs = [loki.process.faro.receiver]
+        traces = [otelcol.processor.batch.default.input]
+    }
+}
+
 // The OpenTelemetry batch processor collects trace spans until a batch size or timeout is met, before sending those
 // spans onto another target. This processor is labeled 'default'.
 otelcol.processor.batch "default" {

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ services:
   alloy:
     image: grafana/alloy:v1.9.1
     ports:
+      - "12350:12350"
       - "12347:12345"
       - "12348:12348"
       - "6832:6832"
@@ -143,6 +144,24 @@ services:
       - OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_INSECURE=true
       - OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES=ip=1.2.3.5
 
+  # React frontend for the mythical beasts management system
+  mythical-frontend:
+    #build:
+    #  context: ./source/mythical-beasts-frontend
+    #  dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    #  args:
+    #    - REACT_APP_API_URL=/api
+    #    - REACT_APP_ALLOY_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:12350/collect
+    image: grafana/intro-to-mltp:mythical-beasts-frontend-latest
+    restart: always
+    depends_on:
+      mythical-server:
+        condition: service_started
+      alloy:
+        condition: service_started
+    ports:
+      - "3001:80"
+
   # The Tempo service stores traces send to it by Grafana Alloy, and takes
   # queries from Grafana to visualise those traces.
   tempo:

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Dependencies
+/node_modules
+/.pnp
+.pnp.js
+
+# Testing
+/coverage
+
+# Production
+/build
+
+# Misc
+.DS_Store
+.env.local
+.env.development.local
+.env.test.local
+.env.production.local
+
+# Logs
+npm-debug.log*
+yarn-debug.log*
+yarn-error.log*
+
+# IDE
+.vscode/
+.idea/
+*.swp
+*.swo
+
+# OS
+Thumbs.db
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Build stage
+FROM node:18-alpine AS build
+
+# Accept build arguments
+ARG REACT_APP_API_URL
+ARG REACT_APP_ALLOY_ENDPOINT
+
+# Set as environment variables for the build process
+ENV REACT_APP_API_URL=$REACT_APP_API_URL
+ENV REACT_APP_ALLOY_ENDPOINT=$REACT_APP_ALLOY_ENDPOINT
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# Copy package files
+COPY package*.json ./
+
+# Install all dependencies (including dev dependencies needed for build)
+RUN npm ci
+
+# Copy source code
+COPY . .
+
+# Build the React app with rsbuild
+RUN npm run build
+
+# Production stage
+FROM nginx:alpine
+
+# Copy custom nginx config
+COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+
+# Copy built app from build stage
+COPY --from=build /app/build /usr/share/nginx/html
+
+# Expose port 80
+EXPOSE 80
+
+# Start nginx
+CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+events {
+    worker_connections 1024;
+}
+
+http {
+    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+    default_type  application/octet-stream;
+
+    # Logging
+    log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
+                    '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
+                    '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
+
+    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
+    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
+
+    # Gzip compression
+    gzip on;
+    gzip_vary on;
+    gzip_min_length 1024;
+    gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/javascript application/javascript application/xml+rss application/json;
+
+    # Server configuration
+    server {
+        listen 80;
+        server_name localhost;
+        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
+        index index.html;
+
+        # Security headers
+        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
+        add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
+        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
+
+        # Handle React Router (client-side routing)
+        location / {
+            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
+        }
+
+        # Cache static assets
+        location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg)$ {
+            expires 1y;
+            add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";
+        }
+
+        # API proxy to backend - proxy API requests to the mythical-server
+        location /api/ {
+            # Remove /api prefix and proxy to backend
+            rewrite ^/api/(.*)$ /$1 break;
+            proxy_pass http://mythical-server:4000;
+            proxy_set_header Host $host;
+            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+
+            # CORS headers for direct API access via nginx
+            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://localhost:3001" always;
+            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS" always;
+            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Content-Type, Authorization" always;
+            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true" always;
+
+            # Handle preflight requests
+            if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
+                add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://localhost:3001";
+                add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS";
+                add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Content-Type, Authorization";
+                add_header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true";
+                add_header Content-Length 0;
+                add_header Content-Type text/plain;
+                return 204;
+            }
+        }
+
+        # Health check endpoint
+        location /health {
+            access_log off;
+            return 200 "healthy\n";
+            add_header Content-Type text/plain;
+        }
+    }
+}