The Modern Observability Problem

• odigos

  40 3,020 9.8 Go

  Distributed tracing without code changes. 🚀 Instantly monitor any application using OpenTelemetry and eBPF

  

If you are thinking on adopting OpenTelemetry, you should check out Odigos: https://github.com/keyval-dev/odigos (I’m the author). This tools handles instrumentation for any application (even including Go) and also manages the collectors pipeline.

• skywalking

  23 23,269 9.5 Java

  APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

  

For me, Apache Skywalking feels "good enough", although definitely not perfect: https://skywalking.apache.org/

The Docker Compose stack for it doesn't look as complicated as that of Sentry, it's basically an almost monolithic piece of software like Zabbix is and it works okay. The UI is reasonably sane to navigate and you have agents that you can connect with most popular languages out there.

That said, the UI sometimes feels a bit janky, the documentation isn't exactly ideal and the community could definitely be bigger (niche language support). Also, ElasticSearch as the data store feels too resource intensive, I wonder if I could move to MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL for smaller amounts of data.

Then again, if I could make monitoring and observability someone else's problem, I'd prosper more, so it depends on your circumstances.

• InfluxDB

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  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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