Howdy, all! I hope we are doing well on this fine Wednesday (hopefully no midweek blues). I was hoping to enlist your services for feedback on a new initiative we have been working on:
We have been integrating interactive sandboxes within our documentation. These sandboxes are currently run via Killercoda and they are essentially disposable VM’s which allow users to run through documentation tutorials without needing to prepare their host environment.
Here are a few of our main examples:
- Quickstart to run Loki locally | Grafana Loki documentation
- Sending OpenTelemetry logs to Loki using Alloy | Grafana Loki documentation
- Sending Logs to Loki via Kafka using Alloy | Grafana Loki documentation
- Use Grafana Alloy to send logs to Loki | Grafana Alloy documentation
We would like to know the good, bad and ugly of the experience to see whether we should continue expanding and investing time. I have created a Google forum: https://forms.gle/VqTxYeAcGjj5yjxj8. But if you feel more comfortable you can just leave feedback in the thread!
If you like it I would also be interested to hear:
- Where do you think it would have the most impact?
- Would this be something you want to contribute to with your own tutorials?
- Could you see yourself recommending interactive tutorials to other community members?
Many thanks in advance for your time!