Practical OpenTelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization

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D. Gomez BlancoPractical OpenTelemetryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9075-0_1

1. The Need for Observability

Daniel Gomez Blanco¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

The term observability has been increasing in popularity over the last few years in the tech industry. Before we delve deeper into OpenTelemetry and how it can help to make our systems more observable, we should first understand what observability is and, most importantly, why we need it, especially in modern distributed systems.

Why Observability Matters

For most of us, observability starts early in our software development careers, normally in the form of print statements dotted around a script outputting messages ...