Learning OpenTelemetry

By Ted Young, Austin Parker,

Book cover of Learning OpenTelemetry: Setting Up and Operating a Modern Observability System

Book description

OpenTelemetry is a revolution in observability data. Instead of running multiple uncoordinated pipelines, OpenTelemetry provides users with a single integrated stream of data, providing multiple sources of high-quality telemetry data: tracing, metrics, logs, RUM, eBPF, and more. This practical guide shows you how to set up, operate, and troubleshoot the…


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Why read it?

1 author picked Learning OpenTelemetry as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Understanding how requests and messages traverse a large microservice landscape is notoriously challenging. The CNCF OpenTelemetry framework standardizes how to collect and observe telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces).

This book was invaluable in helping me grasp OpenTelemetry’s core concepts and architecture, including collectors and exporters, and how to instrument applications effectively. It also helped me understand how distributed tracing data is structured into traces and spans and how to propagate context information between cooperating microservices.

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