Thoughts on Opentelemetry?

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  • 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

  • I am maintainer of an open source APM product, SigNoz and we are seeing many people adopt opentelemetry for some of the reasons mentioned in comments below - vendor lock-in and future proof ness. Currently opentelemetry traces is in pretty mature state while metrics and logs are still under active development.

  • tempo

    Grafana Tempo is a high volume, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend.

  • Grafana Tempo yes. Integrates seamlessly with Grafana (the dashboarding)

  • InfluxDB

    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.

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  • mimir

    Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.

  • OP specifically mentioned APM, which is what maps to Tempo. If you wanted to go full Grafana for metrics and logs too, you can add in Mimir and Loki

  • loki

    Like Prometheus, but for logs.

  • OP specifically mentioned APM, which is what maps to Tempo. If you wanted to go full Grafana for metrics and logs too, you can add in Mimir and Loki

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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