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Nigel Poulton
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Nigel Poulton

Nigel Poulton is a cloud-native subject matter expert who spends his life creating books and training videos on the latest cloud technologies. He is the author of best-selling books on Docker and Kubernetes and the most popular online training videos on the same topic. He is a Docker Captain. Prior to this, Nigel has held various infrastructure roles for large enterprises. When he is not playing with technology, he is dreaming about it. When he is not dreaming about it, he is reading and watching sci-fi. He wishes he lived in the future so he could explore spacetime, the universe, and tons of other mind-blowing stuff. He likes cars, football (soccer), and food. He has a fabulous wife and three children.
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Telemetry and observability

Telemetry is jargon for logs, metrics, and traces. This is observed by remote monitoring platforms that use it to learn how systems work, diagnose problems, and measure and optimise performance. A highly observable system is one that generates high-quality telemetry.

Consider the following quick example. You have an in-house cloud native application comprising lots of small microservices. You also have a centralised monitoring platform. Each microservice outputs telemetry that is collected, stored, and analysed by the monitoring platform.

As mentioned already, cloud native telemetry comes in three major flavours that we sometimes call signal types, verticals, or classes.

  • Logs
  • Metrics
  • Traces

Each serves a different purpose, but collectively they provide detailed insights that can be vital in understanding, troubleshooting, and optimising microservices applications.

The OpenTelemetry project is an incubating CNCF project that aims to standardise...

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Nigel Poulton

Nigel Poulton is a cloud-native subject matter expert who spends his life creating books and training videos on the latest cloud technologies. He is the author of best-selling books on Docker and Kubernetes and the most popular online training videos on the same topic. He is a Docker Captain. Prior to this, Nigel has held various infrastructure roles for large enterprises. When he is not playing with technology, he is dreaming about it. When he is not dreaming about it, he is reading and watching sci-fi. He wishes he lived in the future so he could explore spacetime, the universe, and tons of other mind-blowing stuff. He likes cars, football (soccer), and food. He has a fabulous wife and three children.
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