OpenTelemetry in 2023

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highlight.io

We're big users of clickhouse at <a href="https://highlight.io">https://highlight.io</a>. Some more details here if you're interested:.

#Dev Ops #Monitoring #Performance Monitoring 11 social mentions

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Grafana

#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions

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OpenObserve

I guess you could take a look at this: https://openobserve.ai/ It's in Rust to add some HN catnip.

#Dev Ops #Monitoring #Performance Monitoring 4 social mentions

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Apache SkyWalking

> What should people use? I recall Apache Skywalking being pretty good, especially for smaller/medium scale projects: https://skywalking.apache.org/ The architecture is simple, the performance is adequate, it doesn't make you spend days configuring it and it even supports various different data stores: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v9.0.0/en/setup/backend/backend-storage/ The problems with it are that it isn't super popular (although has agents for most popular stacks), the docs could be slightly better and I recall them also working on a new UI so there is a little bit of churn: https://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/ Still better versus some of the other options when you need something that just works instead of spending a lot of time configuring something (even when that something might be superior in regards to the features): https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/docker-compose.yml I wish there was more self-hosted software like that out there, enough to address certain concerns in a simple way on day 1 and leave branching out to more complex options like OpenTelemetry once you have a separate team for that and the cash is rolling in.

#Development #Tool #Monitoring Tools 14 social mentions

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Veneur

This was the idea behind Stripe's Veneur project - spans, logs, and metrics all in the same format, "automatically" rolling up cardinality as needed - which I thought was cool but also that it would be very hard to get non-SRE developers on board with when I saw a talk about it a few years ago. <a href="https://github.com/stripe/veneur">https://github.com/stripe/veneur</a>.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 1 social mentions

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Open Telemetry

Https://opentelemetry.io > OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior. You can absolutely categorize telemetry into these high-level categories, true. But the specifics on <i>how</i> that data is captured, exported, collected, queried, etc. Is necessarily unique to each programming language, backend system, organization, etc. That's because telemetry data is always larger than the original data it represents: a production request will be of some well-defined size, but the metadata about that request is potentially infinite. Consequently, the main design constraint for telemetry systems is always efficiency. Efficiency requires specialization, which is in direct tension with features that generalize over backends and tools, e.g. > Traces, Metrics, Logs -- Create and collect telemetry data from your services and software, then forward them to a variety of analysis tools. And features that generalize over languages, e.g. > Drop-In Instrumentation -- OpenTelemetry integrates with popular libraries and frameworks such as Spring, ASP.NET Core, Express, Quarkus, and more! Installation and integration can be as simple as a few lines of code. I think OTel treats these goals -- which are very valuable to end users!! -- as inviolable core requirements, and then does whatever is necessary to implement them, even if the resulting code is unsound, or inefficient, or incoherent.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 156 social mentions