OpenTelemetry And KubeVirt For Modern Virtualization

Observability, Monitoring, and Distributed Tracing for Cloud-Native Virtual Machines

von Vaughn Ito

306 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Master OpenTelemetry and KubeVirt for Modern Cloud-Native Virtualization

Virtual machines are no longer limited to traditional virtualization platforms. With KubeVirt, virtual machines can be managed through Kubernetes, while OpenTelemetry provides a vendor-neutral foundation for collecting, processing, and correlating metrics, logs, and traces.

OpenTelemetry and KubeVirt for Modern Virtualization is a practical guide to building, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operating observable cloud-native virtual machine environments. Whether you are working with Kubernetes, KubeVirt, enterprise virtualization, private clouds, or modern infrastructure platforms, this book takes you from foundational concepts to a complete observability laboratory.

You will learn how KubeVirt integrates virtual machines with Kubernetes, how VirtualMachines and VirtualMachineInstances work, and how CPU, memory, storage, networking, migration, and lifecycle operations can be managed and observed.

You will also explore the complete OpenTelemetry ecosystem, including APIs, SDKs, instrumentation, OTLP, semantic conventions, the OpenTelemetry Collector, receivers, processors, exporters, pipelines, the OpenTelemetry Operator, and auto-instrumentation.

The book goes further into practical VM monitoring and troubleshooting, showing how to work with metrics, logs, Kubernetes events, distributed traces, and correlated telemetry to investigate performance problems and perform evidence-based root-cause analysis.

Advanced chapters cover production-ready observability, including scalable Collector architectures, agent and gateway deployments, sampling, cardinality, retention, TLS, authentication, authorization, high availability, fault tolerance, telemetry pipeline resilience, and multi-cluster KubeVirt operations.

The hands-on capstone brings everything together: deploy Kubernetes and KubeVirt, build an OpenTelemetry telemetry pipeline, instrument workloads, monitor virtual machines, introduce controlled failures, analyze telemetry, identify root causes, and build a production-oriented cloud-native virtualization platform.

Inside, you will learn how to: - Build and manage KubeVirt virtual machines- Collect and correlate metrics, logs, and traces- Deploy and configure OpenTelemetry Collectors- Monitor VM, Kubernetes, guest, and application behavior- Troubleshoot performance and availability problems- Perform telemetry-driven root-cause analysis- Design secure, resilient, and scalable observability pipelines- Build multi-cluster KubeVirt observability environments>If you want to move beyond simply knowing that a VM is running and learn how to understand what it is doing, how it is behaving, and why problems occur, this book provides a practical foundation for modern Kubernetes-based virtualization and observability.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175962490
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published