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AWS Observability Handbook
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AWS Observability Handbook

by Phani Kumar Lingamallu, Fabio Oliveira
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Collecting Metrics and Traces Using OpenTelemetry

Regardless of whether you are a seasoned veteran or a beginner on your observability journey, since you are following this book and doing your homework, you already have all the pieces in place now: you can now collect metrics, traces, and logs from your application on AWS, whether using Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, containers, or Lambda functions.

But let’s take a step back to see the big picture. To collect metrics for an EC2 environment, you need to install an agent on your virtual machine, a sidecar on your containerized application, or a Lambda layer on your serverless application. To collect application-specific metrics, you need to use a library as a dependency and write code ...

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