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

• Chat: CNCF Slack #tag-observability
• TAG Meetings Schedule:
  • US/EU friendly meetings @ 1600 UTC, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month
    • See CNCF community calendar for invite links
    • Meeting Notes
  • NEW! US (PT)/ APAC friendly meeting @12:00 AM UTC, 2nd Tuesdays of each month
    • Meeting Notes
• In Progress Work, Status, and Roadmap
• Mailing List: cncf-tag-observability@lists.cncf.io (join here)

CNCF projects related to the Observability TAG

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

• Join our discussion channels on CNCF Slack #tag-observability
• Join our bi-monthly calls where observability experts and practitioners present on and discuss Observability topics
• Contribute to discussion threads on the O11y TAG GitHub Issues
• Participate in O11y TAG workgroups including
  • Observe K8s workgroup
  • Observability Query Language Specification (QLS) workgroup
• Come say Hi! at CNCF conferences including Kubecon NA, Kubecon EU and other open source conferences such as Open Source Summits.

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	cathy.h.zhang@intel.com	cathyhongzhang	Intel
Ricardo Rocha	rocha.porto@gmail.com	rochaporto	CERN

Chairs (alphabetical order)

Name	Email	CNCF Slack	GitHub	Company	Open Source
Alolita Sharma	alolita.sharma@gmail.com	@Alolita Sharma	alolita	Apple	OpenTelemetry Team; Other
Matt Young	halcyondude@gmail.com	@Matt Young	halcyondude	Independent

Tech Leads

Name	Email	CNCF Slack	GitHub	Company	Open Source
Bartłomiej Płotka	bwplotka@gmail.com	@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	richih@richih.org	@RichiH	RichiH	Grafana	Prometheus Team; PromCon Lead

Emeritus TOC Liaisons (alphabetical order)

Name	Email	GitHub	Company
Erin Boyd	eboyd@redhat.com	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.