References
Originally published in Japanese at https://zenn.dev/ymotongpoo/books/observability-platform-with-otel/viewer/99-references.
This page lists, by chapter, the primary sources that this book refers to. The stability levels and versions in the text are the values that I checked on September 16, 2026. For the measurement conditions in Chapter 9 and for past release history, the text gives the versions at the time of writing. Before you use a resource, check its latest state at the link.
General
- Official OpenTelemetry documentation
- Platform Engineering Kaigi 2026 session overview (in Japanese)
- Getting Started with Telemetry Sampling in OpenTelemetry (in Japanese). My book on the design of head sampling and tail sampling, and on the estimation of volume and cost. The sampling section in Chapter 2 refers to it.
- Sample repository: otel-platform-blueprint
- Talk slides
Chapter 2: SDK distribution
- Distributions (the definition of the concept)
- opentelemetry-go and versions.yaml (the stability of each module)
- The specification compliance matrix (support for environment variables)
- autoexport and autoprop
- otelconf (the Go implementation of declarative configuration) and opentelemetry-configuration (the configuration schema)
- The registry of instrumentation libraries
- Understanding Consistent Probability Sampling in OpenTelemetry (my article) (in Japanese)
Chapter 3: Zero-code instrumentation
- Zero-code instrumentation
- OBI (OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation) and the official blog post on the goals for 2026
- The announcement of otelc v1 (compile-time instrumentation for Go)
- Zero-code instrumentation on Kubernetes with the OpenTelemetry Operator
- Behind the Scenes of OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (in Japanese). My book on the constraints of eBPF instrumentation for Go binaries.
Chapter 4: Collector layer
- OpenTelemetry Collector
- Building a custom Collector (OCB)
- opentelemetry-collector and opentelemetry-collector-contrib
- opentelemetry-collector-releases (the build pipeline for the official distributed artifacts)
Chapter 5: Fleet management
- Management (the official documentation on managing the Collector)
- The OpAMP specification
- opamp-go
- OpAMP Supervisor
Chapter 6: Semantic conventions and Weaver
- Semantic conventions and the semantic-conventions repository
- OpenTelemetry Weaver and the guide to defining a custom registry
- opentelemetry-weaver-packages (the official collection of policies)
- opentelemetry-weaver-examples (a collection of working samples)
- The templates that generate the official Go semconv package
- Observability by Design (official blog post on applying Weaver to the operation of semconv)
Chapter 7: Telemetry for AI workloads
- semantic-conventions-genai (the dedicated repository for the GenAI conventions)
- Inside the LLM Call (official blog post)
- opentelemetry-python-genai (the official GenAI instrumentation for Python)
- Viewing Claude Code and Codex CLI telemetry in Grafana Cloud (my article) (in Japanese)
Chapter 8: Reading telemetry with AI
Platform Engineering
- Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Team Topologies (Japanese edition)
- Platform Engineering (CNCF Platforms White Paper)