# References > Source: https://www.ymotongpoo.com/books/observability-platform-with-otel/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](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/) - [Platform Engineering Kaigi 2026 session overview](https://www.cnia.io/pek2026/sessions/eba4a57f-e4f0-4201-b731-0a37d6a53f7a/) (in Japanese) - *[Getting Started with Telemetry Sampling in OpenTelemetry](https://amzn.to/4cQG9i6)* (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](https://github.com/ymotongpoo/otel-platform-blueprint) - Talk slides ## Chapter 2: SDK distribution - [Distributions (the definition of the concept)](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/distributions/) - [opentelemetry-go](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go) and [versions.yaml (the stability of each module)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/blob/main/versions.yaml) - [The specification compliance matrix (support for environment variables)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/spec-compliance-matrix.md) - [autoexport](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/exporters/autoexport) and [autoprop](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/propagators/autoprop) - [otelconf (the Go implementation of declarative configuration)](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/otelconf) and [opentelemetry-configuration (the configuration schema)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-configuration) - [The registry of instrumentation libraries](https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/registry/) - [Understanding Consistent Probability Sampling in OpenTelemetry (my article)](https://zenn.dev/ymotongpoo/articles/20260717-cps) (in Japanese) ## Chapter 3: Zero-code instrumentation - [Zero-code instrumentation](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/zero-code/) - [OBI (OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation)](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/zero-code/obi/) and [the official blog post on the goals for 2026](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/obi-goals/) - [The announcement of otelc v1 (compile-time instrumentation for Go)](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/go-compile-time-instrumentation-v1/) - [Zero-code instrumentation on Kubernetes with the OpenTelemetry Operator](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/platforms/kubernetes/operator/automatic/) - *[Behind the Scenes of OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation](https://zenn.dev/ymotongpoo/books/go-ebpf-primer)* (in Japanese). My book on the constraints of eBPF instrumentation for Go binaries. ## Chapter 4: Collector layer - [OpenTelemetry Collector](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/) - [Building a custom Collector (OCB)](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/extend/ocb/) - [opentelemetry-collector](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector) and [opentelemetry-collector-contrib](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib) - [opentelemetry-collector-releases (the build pipeline for the official distributed artifacts)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases) ## Chapter 5: Fleet management - [Management (the official documentation on managing the Collector)](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/management/) - [The OpAMP specification](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opamp-spec/blob/main/specification.md) - [opamp-go](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opamp-go) - [OpAMP Supervisor](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/cmd/opampsupervisor) ## Chapter 6: Semantic conventions and Weaver - [Semantic conventions](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/) and [the semantic-conventions repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions) - [OpenTelemetry Weaver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/weaver) and [the guide to defining a custom registry](https://github.com/open-telemetry/weaver/blob/main/docs/define-your-own-telemetry-schema.md) - [opentelemetry-weaver-packages (the official collection of policies)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-weaver-packages) - [opentelemetry-weaver-examples (a collection of working samples)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-weaver-examples) - [The templates that generate the official Go semconv package](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/tree/main/semconv/templates) - [Observability by Design (official blog post on applying Weaver to the operation of semconv)](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-weaver/) ## Chapter 7: Telemetry for AI workloads - [semantic-conventions-genai (the dedicated repository for the GenAI conventions)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-genai) - [Inside the LLM Call (official blog post)](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/genai-observability/) - [opentelemetry-python-genai (the official GenAI instrumentation for Python)](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-genai) - [Viewing Claude Code and Codex CLI telemetry in Grafana Cloud (my article)](https://zenn.dev/ymotongpoo/articles/20260616-ai-cli-otel-grafana) (in Japanese) ## Chapter 8: Reading telemetry with AI - [Semantic conventions for MCP](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions-genai/blob/main/docs/gen-ai/mcp.md) - [AI Agent Observability (official blog post)](https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ai-agent-observability/) - [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) ## Platform Engineering - Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, *[Team Topologies](https://teamtopologies.com/)* ([Japanese edition](https://amzn.to/4rhgFAt)) - [Platform Engineering (CNCF Platforms White Paper)](https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platforms/)