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D. Gomez BlancoPractical OpenTelemetryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9075-0_12

12. Adopting Observability

Daniel Gomez Blanco1  
(1)
Edinburgh, UK
 

The initial chapters of this book focused on why observability matters in modern distributed systems and how OpenTelemetry standards help to provide the building blocks to implement a holistic approach to understand distributed systems, correlating telemetry across signals and services, breaking those silos they’ve traditionally been confined to. Each of the individual signals we’ve explored (traces, metrics, and logs) has specific characteristics that make them a better signal for a particular use case, but ...

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