See Inside Your Systems
Understand Your Systems Through Metrics, Logs, and TracesBy Malcolm Grimaldi
Length7h 14m
About this audiobook
observability book and metrics logs traces. Are you tired of guessing what's happening inside your systems? Do you want to turn outages into quick fixes and build real observability with metrics, logs, and traces? This hands-on guide takes you from beginner to pro, covering dashboards, alerting, and the practices that make monitoring work in the real world. Malcolm Grimaldi shows you how to design effective dashboards, set up meaningful alerts, and use traces to pinpoint issues fast. You'll learn to combine data sources, create actionable insights, and reduce downtime with proven strategies. Whether you're a developer, ops engineer, or IT manager, this book gives you the tools to see inside your systems and keep them running smoothly.
What you'll learn:
Build custom dashboards that show what matters
Set up alerts that catch problems before users notice
Use metrics, logs, and traces together for full visibility
Turn outages into learning opportunities and quick fixes
Scale observability from small apps to large systems
Stop flying blind. Start seeing inside your systems today. This book is your practical companion for achieving real observability, with examples and exercises you can apply immediately. Unlike other tech books, this one focuses on actionable skills, not theory. Compare with The Other Wes Moore and You Deserve Each Other—this is your hands-on path to mastering observability.
This hands-on Other guide is written to be used at the keyboard: every concept is paired with something you can run, adapt, and keep. You move from first principles to real, working results, with the common errors and fixes called out along the way so you are never stuck for long.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length7 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Chapter 1 — The Observability Mindset
3Chapter 2 — Setting Up the Sample Application
4Chapter 3 — Metrics Fundamentals
5Chapter 4 — Prometheus in Depth
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6Chapter 5 — Visualizing with Grafana
7Chapter 6 — Structured Logging and Collection
8Chapter 7 — Log Analysis with Loki and Grafana
9Chapter 8 — Distributed Tracing Concepts
10Chapter 9 — Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry
11Chapter 10 — Unified Observability with Trace IDs
12Chapter 11 — Designing Effective Alerting
13Chapter 12 — Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets
14Chapter 13 — Incident Response from Alert to Postmortem
15Chapter 14 — Scaling Observability
16Chapter 15 — Cost Management and Data Retention
17Chapter 16 — Advanced Signal Processing
18Chapter 17 — Integrating with Incident Management Tools
19Chapter 18 — The Road Ahead
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