Ask HN: Best resources to learn about software observability

8 points by siddharthgoel88 3y ago ↗ HN

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's concepts, what to do, what not to do, how to setup from an existing software, etc.

Looking for some good recommendations.

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geethree 3y 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.

0-https://sre.google/sre-book/part-II-principles/

pb82 3y ago ↗

Not exactly a getting started guide, but if you want to learn about Prometheus and PromQL, I've recently made a tool to spin up an instance and send fake metrics data to it: https://github.com/pb82/prometheus-toolbox

This sets you up to play around and learn PromQL.

srinathkrishna 3y ago ↗

I'd recommend reading content by copyconstruct on their medium blog and also content by Honeycomb and it's CEO/CTO. Lots of first principles content that you can learn and apply to any system.

Once you're familiar with the basics, you can pickup some docs/videos around OpenTelemetry to read about how it is done in the real world. Pretty much all obs systems today have otel support.

jjtang1 3y ago ↗

Some practical monitoring articles: https://rootly.com/blog

For example:

1/ https://rootly.com/blog/monitoring-your-platform-from-multip... 2/ https://rootly.com/blog/the-role-of-sres-in-observability