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_8

8. Logging

Daniel Gomez Blanco¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

Logs are one of the earliest forms of telemetry. As such, this signal benefits from native support in many languages and from well-supported frameworks that allow to produce them as structured or unstructured events. At the time of writing, the OpenTelemetry Logs specification is still under development, in the experimental stage. Therefore, the concepts and examples used in this chapter are subject to change. Nonetheless, even at this early stage, the specification contemplates that in order to support this long legacy of logging ...