Modern Telemetry with OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions OTLP and Collector Pipelines (Paperback)

Paperback. Modern telemetry is as much about design as it is about data. This book explains how to build observability systems that stay portable, consistent, and easy to operate across metrics, logs, and traces. It connects the theory of telemetry models with the practical realities of instrumentation, transport, collection, enrichment, and backend validation.Written around OpenTelemetry, semantic conventions, OTLP, and Collector pipelines, the book gives a structured path from application code to vendor neutral observability infrastructure. It shows how distributed context, resource identity, and signal correlation work together so teams can investigate incidents, compare services, and keep telemetry meaningful as systems grow.What readers will learnHow observability goals differ from raw monitoring, and how each signal supports real troubleshooting.The role of OpenTelemetry SDKs, exporters, receivers, processors, and collectors in a complete flow.How OTLP behaves over gRPC and HTTP, including transport tradeoffs, endpoint setup, security, and debugging.How semantic conventions shape consistent naming, attributes, and resource modeling for services, APIs, databases, and messaging systems.How to correlate logs with traces, preserve context across service boundaries, and structure records for search and analysis.How to design Collector pipelines for routing, filtering, batching, retry, normalization, and enrichment.How to validate output against backend expectations and troubleshoot missing or mismatched telemetry.Why this book stands outRather than treating observability as a stack of disconnected tools, it presents a full operational picture. The chapters move from fundamentals to implementation, then to deployment patterns and runbooks. That makes it useful for developers, platform engineers, SREs, and architects who need telemetry that is both portable and production ready.By the end, readers will have a clear reference for building telemetry systems that reduce vendor lock in, improve signal quality, and support reliable analysis at scale. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …