The Practical Guide to Modern Networking Telemetry

How to use telemetry to see into your network’s performance and usage patterns

In this O’Reilly Technical Guide, authors Avi Freedman and Leon Adato walk through everything network and observability practitioners need to know about modern network telemetry: the types, the sources, the management/control/data planes it lives on, and the practical methods to wrangle that data into actionable insight — including how AI fits into the workflow.

You’ll learn

• The full landscape of network telemetry: traffic data, device metrics, events, synthetic measurements, routing, config, and business data
• How to collect, transport, enrich, normalize, store, and query telemetry at scale
• How to put telemetry to work with guided, unbounded, and AI-assisted workflows
• Real-world use cases for combining multiple telemetry types together and combining network data with the rest of your stack to answer the age-old question, “Is the network the problem?”
• How to make the business case for network observability and lead the charge inside your organization