appendix-b

Appendix B. Additional Resources

 

B.1 Observability

There is a lot of content about observability around these days. The following table contains details of suggested reading on the subject that will help with not just technical details but also foundational thinking.

Table B.1 Reading recommendations for observability
Title
Description
Link
Cloud Observability in Action
This book looks at the broader Observability perspectives
OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry is rapidly becoming the standard for communicating Telemetry data (logs, metrics, and traces). Comes under CNCF
Four Golden signals
Part of Google's SRE guide and embodies ideas around monitoring and observability.

B.2 Helpful Logging Practices Resources

The key to the effective use of Logs is good logging. We have provided a lot of insight into recommended practices. But if you wish to find out what others think, these resources may help.

B.3 Suggested Additional Reading

B.4 Web Resources

B.5 Fluent Bit Resources

B.6 Fluent Bit Formatters

B.7 Expressing time

B.8 Expressing data sizes

B.9 Sources of predefined regular expressions

B.10 Lua

B.11 WASM & WASI

B.12 Useful 3rd Party Tools

B.13 Standard plugins based on platform

B.13.1 Input Plugins

B.13.2 Output Plugins

B.14 Predefined Parsers

B.14.1 Parsers File

B.14.2 parsers_ambassador file

B.14.4 parsers_extra