Useful Resources
As we've gone down this rabbit hole, we've found a few resources that are pretty helpful. There might be better places for this to live, but we gotta start somewhere and these resources haven't found a better home yet. We'd recommend checking them out!
| Resource | Context |
|---|---|
| Practical OpenTelemetry | Provides a good baseline context for OTEL and it's use cases in the context of real code. |
| Splunk - What is Observability | Provides a good baseline on what observability means and how it's different, but related to monitoring. |
| opentelemetry.io | The second most actively contributed CNCF project behind K8S. Essential for O11y |
| o11y demystified | The article that gave us the o11y name |
| o11y in distributed systems - Google SRE | A very brief and succinct of what o11y is and how to use metrics, traces, and logs |
| OTEL the o11y framework that's cloud native | Talk at AWS about OTEl by Dennis Kieselhorst (Devoxx) the creator |
| Space Metrics | A post about SPACE metrics, the metrics missing from DORA |
| Google SRE Handbook | A doc on monitoring distributed systems |