Observability 101 using Opentelemetry & SigNoz @ Kubernetes Community Day

In this workshop, we will learn about the basics of observability and its benefits. We will take a hands on approach and actually instrument an application with OpenTelemetry, which is a vendor neutral instrumentation library.

Then we will visualise the data sent by open telemetry with SigNoz, which is a full stack observability platform. In the last section, we will take an example of a real world issue and how this observability stack can be used to find the root cause of the issue.

More about SigNoz:

SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator.

SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

SigNoz Instrumentation with OpenTelemetry blogs:

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Ques: Quantifying too much load?
04:27 Observability of Observability layer?
05:25 What is Observability?
07:58 Why is Observability Important Now?
11:27 The 3 Pillars of Observability
17:57 Why is Distributed Tracing Important?
20:20 What is OpenTelemetry?
24:18 OpenTelemetry Key Features
25:35 OpenTelemetry Website
26:12 OpenTelemetry Python
30:18 OpenTelemetry Collector
39:54 BREAK (10 minutes)
50:18 Question 1
51:11 Why we build SigNoz?
57:46 SigNoz Architecture
01:01:06 Run Some Code
01:02:30 Install Signoz
01:07:34 Sample HOT ROD app
01:10:11 SigNoz Dashboard
01:28:44 Service Maps
01:36:39 Questions and Feedback