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Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry
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Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

by Alex Boten
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
7h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5: Metrics – Recording Measurements

Tracing code execution throughout a system is one way to capture information about what is happening in an application, but what if we're looking to measure something that would be better served by a more lightweight option than a trace? Now that we've learned how to generate distributed traces using OpenTelemetry, it's time to look at the next signal: metrics. As we did in Chapter 4, Distributed Tracing – Tracing Code Execution, we will first look at configuring the OpenTelemetry pipeline to produce metrics. Then, we'll continue to improve the telemetry emitted by the grocery store application by using the instruments OpenTelemetry puts at our disposal. In this chapter, we will do the following:

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ISBN: 9781801077705