Unlock your organizational potential and scale your business using observability with this information packed guide

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Key Features:

• Learn the principles of identifying stakeholders, tools, and processes necessary for implementing observability
• Develop strategies to self-sustain the observability journey in the long run
• Learn with real-life case studies to set up observability for your enterprise

Book Description:

Observability can be implemented in multiple ways within an organization based on the organization's needs. So, it's crucial for organizations to decide whether they need observability and to what extent, what skills and tools will suit them, and how long will it take to implement it. Implementing Enterprise Observability for Success provides a step-by-step approach to help you create an observability strategy, understand the principles behind the creation of the strategy, and logical steps to plan and execute the implementation.

You'll learn about observability fundamentals and challenges, the importance of data and analytics along with different tools. Further, you'll discover the various layers from which data should be collected for setting up observability.

Through real- life examples distilled from the author's experience in implementing observability at an enterprise level, you'll uncover some of the non-technical & technical drivers of observability like the culture of the organization, the hierarchy of stakeholders, tools at disposal and the willingness to invest.

By the end of this book, you'll be well-equipped to plan the observability journey, identify different stakeholders, spot the technology stack required, and lay out an effective plan for organization-wide adoption.

What You Will Learn:

• Understand observability fundamentals from scratch
• Get to grips with common challenges in implementing observability
• Segregate organizations according to their size for implementing observability
• Leverage analytics to better understand the value of collected data
• Explore best practices from case studies to smoothen your observability journey
• Understand the Observability Maturity Model and the essential people skills necessary to attain each maturity level

Who this book is for:

This book is for technology leaders, architects, and initiative leads looking to enhance monitoring and/or implementing observability. Engineers, developers, and professionals already working on monitoring and analytics or are responsible for scaling the observability implementation across multiple teams or at an organizational level can also benefit from this book. A deep understanding of monitoring concepts, general knowledge of IT systems and processes along with familiarity with working across various stakeholders is required.

About the Author

Manisha Agrawal is a Solution Architect with expertise in implementing scalable monitoring and observability solutions. She is committed to grooming herself and fellow women in IT to fulfill their ambitions and attain the recognition they truly merit. As an advocate of building repeatable processes that function seamlessly at scale, Manisha possesses sharp attention to detail and a keen sense of improving existing processes. With over 12 years of experience in the fi nance and retail sectors, she has strong exposure to technology, people, and culture, enabling her to adapt quickly and work collaboratively toward shared goals.

Manisha holds a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Rajasthan University, India, and resides with her husband in Bangalore. When she is not busy with work, Manisha enjoys indulging in her passions for traveling the world and devouring books.

Karun Krishnannair is a technology leader, analytics engineer and architect with vast experience in working with enterprise customers and deep understanding of monitoring and observability tools. As technology leader and as an architect, he is an avid believer in system thinking and a strong proponent for a balanced approach of processes, people and tools for solving technology and business problems.

Karun earned a Master of Science in Telecom in 2006 and later a Graduate Diploma in Engineering Management, both from RMIT University. He has worked with two largest Telecommunication providers in Australia, a large Bank, a telecommunication vendor and two Consultancies spanning over 15 years. Such a diverse background has given him experience to see technology, people, process and organizational challenges from very different perspectives. Originally from India, Karun is blessed with two daughters and lives with his wife.