Platforms¶
An Observability platform provides tools, methods and workflows to consume by users, and manage by platform teams (SaaS or self-managed).
Overview¶
Aspecto¶
Facts¶
- Uses OpenTelemetry.
Hot Topics¶
- Aspecto's blog We share everything we know about OpenTelemetry and o11y.
- Trace based Testing A trace based testing open source by.
- OpenTelemetry Bootcamp A free, vendor neutral bootcamp to learn about OpenTelemetry
AWS¶
AWS provides multiple services on their platform:
- Amazon Managed Grafana
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
- Amazon OpenSearch Service
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Facts¶
- Managed Service for Prometheus and Grafana was launched in Dec 2020
Hot Topics¶
- AWS Observability Recipes
- Build an observability solution using managed AWS services and the OpenTelemetry standard
Datadog¶
Facts¶
- SaaS, free and pair tier.
- Agent is OSS
Hot Topics¶
Dynatrace¶
Facts¶
- Dynatrace created Keptn for CI/CD quality gates and SLOs, donated to CNCF.
Hot Topics¶
Elastic¶
Facts¶
- The
ELK stackrefers to Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana as tools. - Beats and agent collectors inspired the name change to
Elastic Stack. - Elastic changed the Apache 2.0-licensed source code of Elasticsearch and Kibana to proprietary Elastic license or SSPL in 2021.
- Elastic APM is included in Elastic Observability.
Hot Topics¶
Google Cloud Operations¶
Facts¶
Hot Topics¶
- Google donated Sqlcomment to OpenTelemetry in Sep 2021. This helps to correlate application and database telemetry.
Grafana¶
Facts¶
- Grafana evolved from a metrics dashboard to a platform with many data sources, plugins and dashboards
- The Grafana agent code was contributed to create the Prometheus agent. Learn more about Metrics.
- Grafana is a fork of Kibana 3
- Grafana Labs changed the license to AGPLv3 for Grafana, Loki, and Tempo in April 2021
Hot Topics¶
Honeycomb¶
Facts¶
- SaaS, free and paid tier.
- Honeycomb created so-called Beelines, small agents to send instrumentation data to the SaaS platform.
- Honeycomb supports OpenTelemetry.
Hot Topics¶
- Honeycomb's blog is a wealth of knowledge and thought leadership for o11y.
NewRelic¶
Facts¶
- SaaS, free and paid tier.
- NewRelic acquired Pixie for Kubernetes Observability.
Hot Topics¶
- Integrates with OpenTelemetry.
Nobl9¶
Facts¶
Hot Topics¶
Opstrace¶
Facts¶
- Observability Distribution, secure and multi-tenants
- Acquired by GitLab in December 2021.
- First demo in the 25. #EveryoneCanContribute cafe in April 2021.
Hot Topics¶
Splunk¶
Facts¶
- Splunk was founded in 2003 and dominated the log collection market for many years.