Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry
Learn to gain visibility into systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry
Created by Alex Boten
Explore how to gain deep visibility into your cloud-native systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry. You'll learn to instrument your applications, collect telemetry data, and analyze it to uncover performance insights and troubleshoot issues effectively.
Packt | May 2022 | 386 min
What You Will Learn
You'll start by understanding the evolution of observability and the fundamentals of OpenTelemetry. Step by step, you'll instrument a distributed application, set up collectors, and use open-source backends to analyze telemetry. Real-world examples help you connect concepts to practical troubleshooting and performance monitoring.
Key Features
- Instrument applications using OpenTelemetry APIs for traces, metrics, and logs
- Configure collectors and analyze telemetry data with open-source tools
- Correlate and interpret telemetry to identify and resolve performance issues
Target Audience
Ideal for software engineers, library authors, and systems operators who want to improve visibility into their services and infrastructure. You should have experience with Python and some familiarity with Go, Linux, and Docker. If your goal is to leverage telemetry for better troubleshooting and system understanding, this course is for you.
