Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability

SMC Journal

"Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability" is a new book by Steve Flanders. Observability in complex systems is crucial, and OpenTelemetry is the future of providing open source and vendor agnostic instrumentation and data collection for better understanding and troubleshooting system behavior.

Key Insights on Mastering OpenTelemetry

🔍 Observability in complex systems is crucial for understanding their behavior and troubleshooting.
📊 Observability is about being able to ask any question about the data collected from applications to determine system behavior, including availability, performance, and even security aspects.
🔍 OpenTelemetry aims to solve the issue of vendor lock-in by providing open source and vendor agnostic instrumentation and data collection.
🧠 The opportunity to give back and contribute something valuable to the community is a driving force behind sharing knowledge and expertise in technology fields.
📊 Focusing on availability and performance is crucial for observability, but understanding latency and performance characteristics can be very environment specific.
💡 OpenTelemetry provides data portability and full control of your data, allowing you to choose what you send, filter, sample, enrich, and redact.
💡 OpenTelemetry is the future, and it's in everyone's best interest to come together and make it the best product we can.
📈 OpenTelemetry's rapid acceptance and growth make it a staple in overall observability strategy for monitoring applications and business performance.