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 - [Observability of CI/CD Pipelines](#Observability-of-CI/CD-pipelines)
 - [Recommended Practices](#recommended-practices)
 - [Logs vs Metrics](log-vs-metric.md)
+- [Dashboards and Reporting](pillars/dashboard.md)
+- [Tools](tools/readme.md)
 - [Recipes](#recipes)
 
 ## Pillars of Observability
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 1. [Logging](pillars/logging.md)
 2. [Tracing](pillars/tracing.md)
 3. [Metrics](pillars/metrics.md)
-4. [Dashboard](pillars/dashboard.md)
 
 ## Observability in Machine Learning
 
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+# Tools
+
+There are a number of modern tools to make systems observable. While identifying and/or creating tools that work for your system, here are a few things to consider to help guide the choices.
+
+- Must be simple to integrate and easy to use.
+- It must be possible to aggregrate and visualize data.
+- Tools must provide real-time data.
+- Must be able to guide users to the problem area with suitable, adequete end-to-end context.
+
+## Choices
+
+- [Loki](./loki.md)
+- [OpenTelemetry](./OpenTelemetry.md)