Publications

Books

• Grafana Zero to Hero: From Visualization to Smart Monitoring for a Unified Observability Platform

  • Publication Date: November 25, 2025
  • This book is adapted from my iThome Ironman Series (DevOps Honorable Mention). It covers Grafana from fundamentals to advanced usage, including dashboard design, alerting, and access control. Each chapter includes hands-on labs and real-world examples, and the book also explores extending Grafana with MCP for LLM-powered workflows.
  • Purchase Links: Tenlong, Books.com.tw, Eslite

• Observability: A Beginner's Guide - 24 Hands-On Labs for Mastering Logs, Metrics, and Traces in Your SRE Journey

  • Publication Date: September 10, 2024
  • This book is adapted from my iThome Ironman Series (Cloud Native Champion). It provides a clear and practical learning path to Observability, covering core concepts and hands-on techniques with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry, and lots of observability tools. Through real-world examples, it shows how to build end-to-end visibility into modern systems.
  • Purchase Links: Tenlong, Books.com.tw, Eslite

Article Series

• 2024 Grafana Zero to Hero: Honorable Mention — DevOps, 2024 iThome Ironman 30-Day Tech Writing Challenge
• 2023 The Mirror of Time: Observability Across the Past, Present, and Future : Champion — Cloud Native, 2023 iThome Ironman 30-Day Tech Writing Challenge