Cloud Native Observability
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Describes building cloud-native observability by collecting large-scale metrics, logs, and distributed traces to drive automated operational actions (restart, scaling) and ultimately autonomous ops. Demonstrates a local microservices demo (2–4 services, mentions ~20-service systems) and shows concrete tools: Prometheus for metrics, Jaeger for tracing, OpenCensus for instrumentation, and a service-mesh approach using Istio (also mentions Linkerd and Consul); notes JavaScript support is immature.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Cloud Native intro
- 3:02Observability defined
- 7:38Metrics and logs
- 14:25Tracing with OpenCensus
- 20:17Tracing in practice
- 23:37Logs role
- 27:14Service mesh foundation
- 30:06Summary
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