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Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

You're reading from   Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry Learn to gain visibility into systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077705
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Chapter 1: The History and Concepts of Observability FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: OpenTelemetry Signals – Traces, Metrics, and Logs 4. Chapter 3: Auto-Instrumentation 5. Section 2: Instrumenting an Application
6. Chapter 4: Distributed Tracing – Tracing Code Execution 7. Chapter 5: Metrics – Recording Measurements 8. Chapter 6: Logging – Capturing Events 9. Chapter 7: Instrumentation Libraries 10. Section 3: Using Telemetry Data
11. Chapter 8: OpenTelemetry Collector 12. Chapter 9: Deploying the Collector 13. Chapter 10: Configuring Backends 14. Chapter 11: Diagnosing Problems 15. Chapter 12: Sampling 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Finding instrumentation libraries

A challenge with instrumentation libraries is keeping track of which libraries are available across different languages. The libraries available for Python currently live in the opentelemetry-collector-contrib repository (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib), but that may not always be the case.

OpenTelemetry registry

The official OpenTelemetry website provides a searchable registry (https://opentelemetry.io/registry/) that includes packages across languages. This information for this registry is stored in a GitHub repository, which can be updated via pull Requests.

opentelemetry-bootstrap

To make getting started even more accessible, the OpenTelemetry Python community maintains the opentelemetry-bootstrap tool, installed via the opentelemetry-instrumentation package. This tool looks at all installed packages in an environment and lists instrumentation libraries for that environment. It's possible to use...

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