First Steps with Observability: OpenTelemetry and You - Nočnica Mellifera, TelemetryHub
The dreaded 3AM phone call: the site is down. What's the difference between just restarting the server hoping for the best, and really understanding what's going wrong? Observability. Observability isn't an end goal or a box that you can tick. It's a design goal for any complex cloud architecture, and like any design goal it's a whole lot easier if you consider it from the very beginning. Nočnica has been working adding observability to systems for many years, and she'll talk about how open source tools can get you detailed answers to the mysteries of a production web stack. We'll cover: 1. Why Observability matters 2. Observability is more than just logging 3. Taking the first steps: Open Telemetry 4. Where to send your data
