# Building a Self-Service Observability Platform with OpenTelemetry

> Source: https://www.ymotongpoo.com/books/observability-platform-with-otel/


This is the companion book to my Platform Engineering Kaigi 2026 talk "Building a Self-Service Observability Platform with OpenTelemetry" (in Japanese). It designs a platform on which development teams set up their own telemetry, using an SDK distribution, zero-code instrumentation, the OpenTelemetry Collector, and semantic conventions. It also extends the platform to observe AI workloads and to let AI agents take part in incident investigation.

- [Introduction](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/00-introduction/)
- [Designing an SDK Distribution](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/10-sdk_distribution/)
- [Distributing Zero-Code Instrumentation](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/20-zero_code_instrumentation/)
- [Designing the Collector Layer and Building a Custom Collector](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/30-collector_build/)
- [Managing a Collector Fleet with OpAMP](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/40-collector_fleet/)
- [Governing Semantic Conventions with Weaver](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/50-semconv_governance/)
- [Telemetry for AI Workloads](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/60-ai_workload_telemetry/)
- [AI Reads the Telemetry](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/70-ai_driven_operations/)
- [Running the Reference Implementation](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/80-reference_implementation/)
- [Conclusion](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/90-conclusion/)
- [References](/books/observability-platform-with-otel/99-references/)