Tracing: Structured Logging, but better in every way

• hyperdx

  18 6,123 9.6 TypeScript

  Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by Clickhouse and OpenTelemetry.

  

I think we fit in that bucket [1] - open source, self-hostable, based on OpenTelemetry and backed by Clickhouse DB (columnar, not time-series).

Clickhouse gives users much greater flexibility in tradeoffs than either a time-series or inverted-index based store could offer (along with S3 support). There's nothing like a system that can balance high performance AND (usable) high cardinality.

[1] https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx

disclaimer (in case anyone just skimmed): I'm one of the authors of HyperDX

• mulog

  4 469 4.6 Clojure

  μ/log is a micro-logging library that logs events and data, not words!

There are logging libraries that include syntactically scoped timers, such as mulog (https://github.com/BrunoBonacci/mulog). While a great library, we preferred timbre (https://github.com/taoensso/timbre) and rolled our own logging timer macro that interoperates with it. More convenient to have such niceties in a Lisp of course.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• timbre

  5 1,432 7.6 Clojure

  Pure Clojure/Script logging library

  

There are logging libraries that include syntactically scoped timers, such as mulog (https://github.com/BrunoBonacci/mulog). While a great library, we preferred timbre (https://github.com/taoensso/timbre) and rolled our own logging timer macro that interoperates with it. More convenient to have such niceties in a Lisp of course.

• opentelemetry-go

  127 4,783 9.7 Go

  OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK

  

Indeed, the three legs (metrics, logs, traces) of OpenTelemetry's telescope. https://opentelemetry.io

• scout_apm_ruby

  2 186 5.9 Ruby

  ScoutAPM Ruby Agent. Supports Rails, Sinatra, Grape, Rack, and many other frameworks

  

* trying to profile code, we used a modified version of Stackprof to do sampling instead of exact profiling. That worked surprisingly well at finding hotspots, with low overhead.

All sorts of other tricks came along too. I should go look at that codebase again to remind me. That'd be good for my resume.... :)

https://github.com/scoutapp/scout_apm_ruby

• logstash-logback-encoder

  8 2,386 5.2 Java

  Logback JSON encoder and appenders

  

• examples

  16 64 2.6 Ruby

  Example apps and instrumentation for Honeycomb (by honeycombio)

  

I haven't used anything else, but I'll gladly shill for https://honeycomb.io.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• signoz

  310 16,955 9.9 TypeScript

  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

  

Companies like https://signoz.io/ are Opentelemetry native and have very transparent approach to predictable pricing. You can self host easily as well.

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