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Ask HN: Best resources to learn about software observability

8 pointsby siddharthgoel88over 2 years ago
I want to learn about software monitoring and observability but not able to find many good resources to learn about it. I want to learn it&#x27;s concepts, what to do, what not to do, how to setup from an existing software, etc.<p>Looking for some good recommendations.

4 comments

jjtang1over 2 years ago
Some practical monitoring articles: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rootly.com&#x2F;blog">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rootly.com&#x2F;blog</a><p>For example:<p>1&#x2F; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rootly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;monitoring-your-platform-from-multiple-locations">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rootly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;monitoring-your-platform-from-multip...</a> 2&#x2F; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rootly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-role-of-sres-in-observability">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rootly.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-role-of-sres-in-observability</a>
srinathkrishnaover 2 years ago
I&#x27;d recommend reading content by copyconstruct on their medium blog and also content by Honeycomb and it&#x27;s CEO&#x2F;CTO. Lots of first principles content that you can learn and apply to any system.<p>Once you&#x27;re familiar with the basics, you can pickup some docs&#x2F;videos around OpenTelemetry to read about how it is done in the real world. Pretty much all obs systems today have otel support.
geethreeover 2 years ago
I found the first few chapters of the google SRE book a good primer, in particular Part 2[0]. The end of each chapter has cited sources which allowed me to dive deeper.<p>0-<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sre.google&#x2F;sre-book&#x2F;part-II-principles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sre.google&#x2F;sre-book&#x2F;part-II-principles&#x2F;</a>
pb82over 2 years ago
Not exactly a getting started guide, but if you want to learn about Prometheus and PromQL, I&#x27;ve recently made a tool to spin up an instance and send fake metrics data to it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pb82&#x2F;prometheus-toolbox">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pb82&#x2F;prometheus-toolbox</a><p>This sets you up to play around and learn PromQL.