opentelemetry-collector VS infracost

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opentelemetry-collector infracost
16 85
3,810 10,187
3.8% 2.0%
9.9 9.7
about 5 hours ago about 9 hours ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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opentelemetry-collector

Posts with mentions or reviews of opentelemetry-collector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-26.
  • OpenTelemetry Collector Anti-Patterns
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2024
    But how does one monitor a Collector? The OTel Collector already emits metrics for the purposes of its own monitoring. These can then be sent to your Observability backend for monitoring.
  • OpenTelemetry Journey #00 - Introduction to OpenTelemetry
    4 projects | dev.to | 25 Feb 2024
    Maybe, you are asking yourself: "But I already had instrumented my applications with vendor-specific libraries and I'm using their agents and monitoring tools, why should I change to OpenTelemetry?". The answer is: maybe you're right and I don't want to encourage you to update the way how you are doing observability in your applications, that's a hard and complex task. But, if you are starting from scratch or you are not happy with your current observability infrastructure, OpenTelemetry is the best choice, independently of the backend telemetry tool that you are using. I would like to invite you to take a look at the number of exporters available in the collector contrib section, if your backend tracing tool is not there, probably it's already using the Open Telemetry Protocol (OTLP) and you will be able to use the core collector. Otherwise, you should consider changing your backend telemetry tool or contributing to the project creating a new exporter.
  • Building an Observability Stack with Docker
    5 projects | dev.to | 15 Feb 2024
    To receive OTLP data, you set up the standard otlp receiver to receive data in HTTP or gRPC format. To forward traces and metrics, a batch processor was defined to accumulate data and send it every 100 milliseconds. Then set up a connection to Tempo (in otlp/tempo exporter, with a standard top exporter) and to Prometheus (in prometheus exporter, with a control exporter). A debug exporter also was added to log info on container standard I/O and see how the collector is working.
  • Amazon EKS Monitoring with OpenTelemetry [Step By Step Guide]
    5 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2023
    You can find more details on advanced configurations here.
  • Go 1.21
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jun 2023
    > opentelemetry is basically a house of antipatterns

    "Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair!"

    https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tr... -> https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-re... ... and then a reasonable person trying to load that mess into their head may ask 'err, what's the difference between go.opentelemetry.io/collector and github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib?'

      $ curl -fsS go.opentelemetry.io/collector | grep go-import
  • Display CockroachDB metrics in Splunk Dashboards
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Dec 2022
    There are 2 collector types: the core and the contrib. I have used the contrib as it features the splunk_hec exporter.
  • Observability Mythbusters: How hard is it to get started with OpenTelemetry?
    4 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2022
    Lightstep ingests data in native OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) format, so we will use the OTLP Exporter. The exporter can be called either otlp or follow the naming format otlp/. We could call it otlp/bob if we wanted to. We're calling our exporter otlp/ls to signal to us that we are using the OTLP exporter to send the data to Lightstep.
  • OpenTelemetry Collector: A Friendly Guide for Devs
    3 projects | dev.to | 24 Aug 2022
    Then, we set up a batch processor that batches up the spans together and every 1 second sends the batch forward. In production, you would want more than 1 second, but I set this here to 1 second for instant feedback in Jaeger.
  • OpenTelemetry in Dotnet
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Jul 2022
    Batch allows for metrics, traces etc to be batched into bundles. The default is 8192 and then it will send, the timeout is the max time before sending regardless. I'd highly recommend utilising batches if you're dealing with high volumes of traffic.
  • Prometheus Agent Mode, for Metric Forwarding
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2021
    There were a bunch of alternatives to solve this before, like grafana agent [0], vm agent [1] or opentelemetry collector [2].

    [0] - https://github.com/grafana/agent

    [1] - https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/tree/mast...

    [2] - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector

infracost

Posts with mentions or reviews of infracost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.
  • Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
    19 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2024
    ‍Infracost is a cost estimation tool that generates cost estimates for Terraform projects, which is crucial for budget planning and cost optimization, especially in cloud environments where resource costs can vary significantly.
  • Top 10 terraform tools you should know about.
    10 projects | dev.to | 11 Dec 2023
    Infracost is a tool that provides cloud cost estimates for infrastructure managed by Terraform. It enables engineers to view and understand the financial impact of their infrastructure changes before they are applied. Infracost integrates directly into the workflow, offering cost breakdowns in various environments like the terminal, Visual Studio Code, or directly within pull requests. This feature allows for more informed decision-making regarding infrastructure modifications, promoting cost-awareness and budget management in the early stages of development. Infracost is particularly useful for teams looking to balance cloud resource utilization with budget constraints. Infracost Cloud is their SaaS product that builds on top of Infracost open source and works with CI/CD integrations. It gives team leads, managers and FinOps practitioners dashboards, guardrails, centralized cost policies and Jira integration so they can help guide the team (e.g. switch AWS GP2 volumes to GP3).
  • HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License
    25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023
    Inevitable end for every open source company since the free money ended. What bothers me is that wording is vague enough.

    > HashiCorp considers a competitive offering to be a product or service provided to users or customers outside of your organization that has significant overlap with the capabilities of HashiCorp’s commercial products or services.

    So, consider there is no cost estimate service and you built a thing that got popular (https://github.com/infracost/infracost). Then after 2 years Terraform Cloud catches up. What happens? Are you out of business?

  • Carbonifer: estimate carbon footprint Terraform projects
    2 projects | /r/Terraform | 3 Feb 2023
    I've started to work on Carbonifer, a tool that can estimate carbon emissions before deploying an infrastructure. A bit like infracost, this reads Terraform files and estimates carbon emissions if this plan is applied.
  • Monitoring infra cost: which tool do you use?
    3 projects | /r/devops | 11 Jan 2023
  • Taming Cloud Costs with Infracost
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Jan 2023
    Infracost is an open-source project that helps us understand how and where we’re spending our money. It gives a detailed breakdown of actual infrastructure costs and calculates how changes impact them. Basically, Infracost is a git diff for billing.
  • Breve guia de sobrevivĂŞncia com Terraform
    11 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2022
    Infracost: Estimativas de custos nos Pull Requests.
  • tfautomv v0.5 released
    2 projects | /r/Terraform | 20 Nov 2022
    There is some discussion on the infracost issue tracker where it looks like this specific error is more common with tgenv
  • List of most useful Terraform open-source tools
    14 projects | /r/Terraform | 28 Aug 2022
    Cost:Infracost (estimation): https://github.com/infracost/infracostTerratag (tagging): https://github.com/env0/terratag (disclaimer, I am CEO at env0)
  • How can i estimate the cost of the cloud infrastructure needed for an application
    2 projects | /r/devops | 14 Aug 2022
    I use https://infracost.io 🤗

What are some alternatives?

When comparing opentelemetry-collector and infracost you can also consider the following projects:

terraform-cost-estimation - Anonymized, secure, and free Terraform cost estimation based on Terraform plan (0.12+) or Terraform state (any version)

terracost-cli - AWS cost estimation for Terraform projects

go-sql-driver/mysql - Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package

GORM - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly

jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

bicep - Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources

infracost-gitlab-ci

go-ethereum - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

aws-nuke - Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.

argo-cd - Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.