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Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

You're reading from Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Product type Book

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077705

Pages 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Distributed Computing

Author (1):

Alex Boten

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Basics

2. Chapter 1: The History and Concepts of Observability

3. Chapter 2: OpenTelemetry Signals – Traces, Metrics, and Logs

4. Chapter 3: Auto-Instrumentation

5. Section 2: Instrumenting an Application

6. Chapter 4: Distributed Tracing – Tracing Code Execution

7. Chapter 5: Metrics – Recording Measurements

8. Chapter 6: Logging – Capturing Events

9. Chapter 7: Instrumentation Libraries

10. Section 3: Using Telemetry Data

11. Chapter 8: OpenTelemetry Collector

12. Chapter 9: Deploying the Collector

13. Chapter 10: Configuring Backends

14. Chapter 11: Diagnosing Problems

15. Chapter 12: Sampling

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

The examples in this chapter are provided in this book's companion repository, found here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Cloud-Native-Observability. The source code can be downloaded via git as per the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Cloud-Native-Observability
$ cd Cloud-Native-Observability/chapter07

The completed examples from this chapter are in the chapter7 directory. If you'd prefer the refactor along, copy the code from chapter6 as a starting point. Next, we'll need to ensure the version of Python on your system is at least 3.6. You can verify it with the following commands:

$ python --version
Python 3.8.9
$ python3 --version
Python 3.8.9

This chapter will use the same opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-sdk, and opentelemetry-propagator-b3 packages we installed in previous chapters. In addition, we will use the opentelemetry-instrumentation and opentelemetry-distro packages. Install the packages...

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Authors (1)

Alex Boten

Alex Boten is a senior staff software engineer that has spent the last ten years helping organizations adapt to a cloud-native landscape. From building core network infrastructure to client mobile applications and everything in between, Alex has first-hand knowledge of how difficult troubleshooting distributed applications is. This led him to the domain of observability and to contributing to related open source projects. An approver and maintainer in several OpenTelemetry projects, Alex has helped implement and evolve the project from its early days in 2019 into the massive community effort that it is today. Alex has contributed to the Python and Go OpenTelemetry implementations, as well as to the specification and the collector projects. More than anything, Alex by codeboten on Twitter loves making sense of the technology around us and sharing his learnings with others.

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