OpenTelemetry: A Way to Achieve Observability - DevInterrupted
We all understand that proper data analytics is crucial to the success of an organization. But what if your analytics can do more than help you troubleshoot current problems? Splunk is building a future where data analytics proactively solve problems before they occur.
Data is essential to success and innovation for modern organizations. However, no commercial vendor has an effective single instrument or tool to collect data from all of an organization’s applications.
However, there is an open source framework: OpenTelemetry. By providing a common format of instrumentation across all services, OpenTelemetry enables DevOps and IT groups to better understand system behavior and performance.
Last week, Splunk’s Spiros Xanthos joined us on Dev Interrupted to explain OpenTelemetry - and to understand OpenTelemetry, we first need to understand Observability.
Observability is the practice of measuring the state of a system by its outputs, used to describe and understand how self-regulating systems operate. Increasingly, organizations are adding observability to distributed IT systems to understand and improve their performance and enable teams to answer a multitude of questions about these systems’ behavior.
