Practical Opentelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization

Learn the value that OpenTelemetry can bring to organizations that aim to implement observability best practices, and gain a deeper understanding of how different building blocks interact with each other to bring out-of-the-box, vendor-neutral instrumentation to your stack. With examples in Java, this book shows how to use OpenTelemetry APIs and configure plugins and SDKs to instrument services and produce valuable telemetry data. You’ll learn how to maximize adoption of OpenTelemetry and encourage the change needed in debugging workflows to reduce cognitive load for engineers troubleshooting production workloads.

​Daniel Gomez Blanco is a Principal Engineer at Skyscanner, leading their observability transformation across hundreds of services to ensure that travelers get a reliable and performant experience when booking their next holiday. He is an advocate of open standards and CNCF projects such as OpenTelemetry to back the instrumentation and collection of operational data. Daniel has experience working in organizations of all sizes, from international institutions such as CERN in Geneva, to London startups such as SKIPJAQ. His main focus has always been building software and adopting solutions to minimize the cognitive load required for engineers to support and operate production services.