DORA, OpenTelemetry & sovereign observability — further reading
A curated, regularly-checked reading list for teams weighing sovereign, OpenTelemetry-native observability under DORA. Primary sources and serious analysis only — no SEO filler.
Curated by the lux-aiops team · every link verified before publishing.
DORA & operational resilience
- Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) — official overview(opens in a new tab)
The EU supervisory authority's explainer of DORA's pillars — ICT risk management, third-party risk, resilience testing and incident reporting.
EIOPA · 2025
- Cybersecurity in the Financial Sector: EU's DORA Takes Effect(opens in a new tab)
Legal analysis marking DORA's 17 January 2025 application date and why continuous ICT monitoring is now mandatory for EU finance.
Mayer Brown · 2025
- Application of DORA: key considerations(opens in a new tab)
Practical post-go-live briefing on the gap analysis and ICT/third-party controls DORA-regulated entities must operate day to day.
DLA Piper · 2025
OpenTelemetry & OTLP
- OTLP Specification (OpenTelemetry Protocol)(opens in a new tab)
The canonical spec for OTLP over gRPC/HTTP — the vendor-neutral wire protocol that makes a backend-agnostic, OTel-native stack possible.
OpenTelemetry (CNCF) · 2026
- CNCF announces OpenTelemetry's graduation(opens in a new tab)
OpenTelemetry is now CNCF's second-highest-velocity project (behind Kubernetes), with 12,000+ contributors — the case for betting on OTel-native tooling.
CNCF · 2026
- OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions(opens in a new tab)
The shared naming scheme across libraries and platforms that lets AIOps correlate signals and switch backends without re-instrumenting.
OpenTelemetry (CNCF) · 2026
Observability cost
- Sampling — head sampling vs tail sampling(opens in a new tab)
How tail sampling keeps the error/latency traces that matter while a small rate represents most of the volume — the core lever for cutting ingest cost.
OpenTelemetry (CNCF) · 2026
- The observability cost trap(opens in a new tab)
Real numbers on runaway telemetry cost (a Datadog bill jumping from $3k to $17k/mo) — quantifies the problem edge filtering targets.
Chronosphere · 2024
- Adaptive Telemetry: cut cost without losing signal(opens in a new tab)
A vendor-with-data account of adaptive sampling/aggregation delivering ~30–50% telemetry-cost reduction at scale.
Grafana Labs · 2025
AIOps research
- A Survey of AIOps for Failure Management in the Era of LLMs(opens in a new tab)
Academic survey of the full AIOps failure-management lifecycle — data prep, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, auto-remediation — and where LLMs fit.
arXiv · Zhang et al. · 2024
- A Comprehensive Survey on Root Cause Analysis in (Micro)Services(opens in a new tab)
A taxonomy of metric-, trace-, log- and multimodal-based root cause analysis for microservices — the scientific foundation for automated RCA.
arXiv · Wang & Qi · 2024
- Monitoring Distributed Systems (SRE Book, ch. 6)(opens in a new tab)
The foundational text defining the four golden signals — latency, traffic, errors, saturation — that any observability approach builds on.
Google SRE · 2016
EU data sovereignty
- Europe's cloud dependency is a political risk(opens in a new tab)
Argues US hyperscalers holding ~70% of the EU cloud market is a geopolitical exposure (CLOUD Act, FISA 702) — the case for sovereign infrastructure.
The Next Web · 2026
- US CLOUD Act vs European data sovereignty (white paper)(opens in a new tab)
Balanced legal analysis distinguishing data sovereignty from localization and mapping CLOUD Act reach vs encryption safeguards.
CMS Law · 2026
- Recommendations 01/2020 on transfer tools (post Schrems II)(opens in a new tab)
The official six-step methodology EU orgs must apply to lawful data transfers after Schrems II — the regulatory basis for keeping data in-EEA.
EDPB · 2021