It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term ‘OpenTelemetry.’ At that time, I was an active member of a working group focused on developing W3C Trace Context, a standard now extensively employed for context propagation in distributed systems. It is likely […]
How to Maximize Telemetry Data Value With Observability Pipelines
The software landscape has shifted significantly in recent years as companies digitize their operations and adopt cloud and microservices technologies. The complexity of modern software systems has led to an increasing need for real-time visibility into their performance—resulting in an explosion of telemetry data that is stretching IT budgets and outpacing engineering teams’ ability to […]
Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability
Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect metrics, event, logs and distributed traces. The Cisco Full-Stack Observability platform will be available in June 2023. The platform, announced at a Cisco […]
Open Standards Are Key For Realizing Observability
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations use between 10 and 15 tools for monitoring, metrics and gathering logging and tracing data. A full 50% also noted that engineers and […]
Datadog Adds Support for OpenTelemetry Protocol
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 event, Datadog announced it made support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) generally available in the agent software it provides to instrument applications. Ilan Rabinovitch, senior vice president of product and community at Datadog, said that capability eliminates the need to install a separate OpenTelemetry collector to aggregate metrics, […]
Ingest OpenTelemetry Traces and Metrics with the Datadog Agent
OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) initiative that provides open, vendor-neutral standards and tools for instrumenting services and applications. Many organizations use OpenTelemetry’s collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools to collect and export observability data from their environment to their preferred backend. As part of our ongoing commitment to OpenTelemetry, we are proud […]
Timescale Announces OpenTelemetry Tracing Support For Promscale
Following its recent $110 million Series C investment, Timescale announces general availability of OpenTelemetry tracing support in Promscale, its unified observability backend for metrics and traces powered by SQL. With today’s announcements, Timescale furthers its mission to enable developers worldwide to analyze their time-series data effectively; enabling them to know what is happening, why it […]
Datadog Announces OpenTelemetry Protocol Support
Datadog expands its existing support for OpenTelemetry by enabling native OpenTelemetry Protocol ingestion in the Datadog Agent NEW YORK, NY, May 16, 2022 – Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced today the general availability of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) support in the Datadog agent. This new capability brings the […]
Observe, Inc. Dives Deeper Into Observability
Fresh from picking up an additional $70 million in funding, Observe, Inc. announced this week it has added multiple tools, dubbed Data Universe Maps, to its observability platform to visualize all datasets and surface underlying event data. The company also added pre-built applications for Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Jenkins environments with editions for […]
The Future of OpenTelemetry for Observability
The observability landscape is changing. Today’s digital transformation journey has highlighted the need for observability as organizations look to capture, analyze and correlate all data across every level of the application stack including logs, metrics, traces and events. With the rampant rise of data, collecting these signals is imperative to both business insights and system […]