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CNCF TAG Observability 🔭⚙️

Technical Advisory Group for Observability under the umbrella of CNCF.

Mission statement

TAG Observability focuses on topics pertaining to the observation of cloud native workloads. Additionally, it produces supporting material and best practices for end-users and provides guidance and coordination for CNCF projects working within the TAG’s scope.

Whitepaper

See our latest 1.0 observability whitepaper to kickstart your observability journey or enhance what you know so far! 💪🏽

Contributions welcome to evolve it further.

Scope

Excerpts from the Observability Charter Document:

  • Foster, review and grow the ecosystem of observability related projects, users, and maintainers in open source, cloud-native technology.
  • Identify and report gaps in the CNCF's project portfolio on topics of observability to the TOC and the wider CNCF community.
  • Collect, curate, champion, and disseminate patterns and current best practices related to the observation of cloud-native systems that are effective and actionable.
  • Educate and inform users with unbiased, accurate, and pertinent information. Educate and help other CNCF projects regarding observability techniques and best current practices available within the CNCF.
  • Provide and maintain a vendor-neutral venue for relevant thought validation, discussion, and project feedback.
  • Provide a ladder for community members to become involved with the technical oversight of projects within the SIG's scope in an open, transparent, and inclusive way.

How we communicate

CNCF projects related to the Observability TAG

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Interactive Landscape

How to get involved

There are many ways you can join in to participate in the Observability TAG’s activities.

Great ways to get involved include

If you would like to suggest a specific topic or action item, please determine if there are ongoing activities or prior art. Good starting points are our GitHub Issues, reports, or meeting notes.

If you want to propose new TAG activities or join in for existing ones, please take a look at our Kanban Board or file a suggestion with a GitHub issue :-)

Operations

TOC Liaisons

Name Email GitHub Company
Cathy Zhang [email protected] cathyhongzhang Intel
Ricardo Rocha [email protected] rochaporto CERN

Chairs (alphabetical order)

Name Email CNCF Slack GitHub Company Open Source
Alolita Sharma [email protected] @Alolita Sharma alolita Apple OpenTelemetry Team; Other
Matt Young [email protected] @Matt Young halcyondude Independent

Tech Leads

Name Email CNCF Slack GitHub Company Open Source
Bartłomiej Płotka [email protected] @bwplotka bwplotka Google Prometheus Team; Thanos Team; Other

Observability TAG Workgroups (WG) and WG Leads

Name Email CNCF Slack GitHub Company Open Source
Chris Larsen @Chris Larsen manolama Netflix O11y TAG QLS WG
Vijay Samuel @Vijay Samuel vjsamuel EBay O11y TAG QLS WG
Ken Finnigan @Ken Finnigan kenfinnigan Independent O11y TAG Observe K8s WG

Emertius Chairs (alphabetical order)

Name Email CNCF Slack GitHub Company Open Source
Richard Hartmann [email protected] @RichiH RichiH Grafana Prometheus Team; PromCon Lead

Emeritus TOC Liaisons (alphabetical order)

Name Email GitHub Company
Erin Boyd [email protected] erinaboyd Red Hat

Governance

This TAG follows the standard operating model provided by the TOC.

Code of Conduct

We follow the CNCF's Code of Conduct.