Learning OpenTelemetry

Appendix B. Further Resources

This appendix offers further reading, links, and other information that you might find useful.

Websites

• The main OpenTelemetry website

• The OpenTelemetry GitHub organization

• The OpenTelemetry Enhancement Proposal repository, which holds records of existing and new extension proposals

• The OpenTelemetry specification

• OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions

• Organizations that have adopted OpenTelemetry

• Open source software (OSS) and commercial observability tools that support OpenTelemetry

Books

• Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy, eds., Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (O’Reilly, 2016)

• Daniel Gomez Blanco, Practical OpenTelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization (Apress, 2023)

• Alex Boten, Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry: Learn to Gain Visibility into Systems by Combining Tracing, Metrics, and Logging with OpenTelemetry (Packt, 2022)

• Sidney Dekker, The Field Guide to Understanding “Human Error” (Routledge, 2014)

• Brendan Gregg, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud (Addison-Wesley, 2020)

• Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda, Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence (O’Reilly, 2022)

• Ronald McCollam, Getting Started with Grafana: Real-Time Dashboards for IT and Business Operations (Apress, 2022)