opentelemetry-collector VS prometheus

Compare opentelemetry-collector vs prometheus and see what are their differences.

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opentelemetry-collector prometheus
16 374
3,810 52,380
3.8% 1.5%
9.9 9.9
about 8 hours ago about 18 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

prometheus

Posts with mentions or reviews of prometheus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.

What are some alternatives?

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

metrics-server - Scalable and efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin

Telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications

Glowroot - Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM

VictoriaMetrics - VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

signoz - SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

Performance Co-Pilot - Performance Co-Pilot

uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Collectd - The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!