How Much Observability Is Enough? - OpenObservability Talks S1E9

The ninth of our OpenObservability Talks has Jujhar Singh, Global DevSecOps Practice Lead at The Economist.

How much observability is enough? What is the investment required to achieve it? How can we drive observability in the company in a measured and pragmatic way? 

This was first live-streamed on 25 February 2021 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/sR-Q3Z-YP2E

Show Notes:

• How to drive observability in your organization
• What is the minimum observability needed for your organization?
• The tech stack impact on observability needs
• Direct correlation between organization, product and observability
• How to assess your observability needs
• The investment involved in observability
• eBPF and tools for deep Linux inspection
• OpenSearch (Elasticsearch fork) status update
• OpenTelemetry’s Tracing specification reaches v1.0
• Stanza contributed its logging agent to OpenTelemetry
• Docker was contributed to CNCF

Resources:

• https://www.kiwico.com/
• https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/
• https://devsecops.jujhar.com/observability-strategy/
• https://devsecops.jujhar.com
• Elasticsearch/Kibana fork updates: https://discuss.opendistrocommunity.dev/c/forking-elasticsearch-kibana/50
• OpenTelemetry v1.0 for Tracing: https://medium.com/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-specification-v1-0-0-tracing-edition-72dd08936978
• Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF: https://www.docker.com/blog/donating-docker-distribution-to-the-cncf/

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