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I've bounced around Splunk, New Relic, Sentry and Datadog over the years. Most recently, I was working with Java and used the open source Vendor-neutral applica

I've bounced around Splunk, New Relic, Sentry and Datadog over the years. Most recently, I was working with Java and used the open source Vendor-neutral application observability facade Micrometer[1] to test out and confirm which APM we wanted to go with. [1] https://micrometer.io https://micrometer.io

shahargl 3y ago
Cool! Never heard of it and definitely gonna check it.
shahargl 3y ago
But that’s for the data part (otel) and not the applicative part (alerts, dashboards, etc)
pranay01 3y ago
You should also check out SigNoz [1]. It's an open source observability platform with metrics, traces and logs in a single application & based natively on opentelemetry. One of the reasons many people use SigNoz is to avoid the vendor lock-in which comes with adding proprietary SDKs of closed source products like DataDog and New Relic in their code. If anyone is starting their observability journey today, I think OpenTelemetry is a very good place to start. You can instrument with Otel SDKs and chose a visualization layer/backend which suits your needs best (Disclaimer: I am maintainer at SigNoz) [1]https://github.com/signoz/signoz https://github.com/signoz/signoz
- talboren 3y ago
  is things such as alerts/dashboards/proprietary data is easily exportable with SigNoz? For instance if I’d like to manage them with terraform
  - harpratap 3y ago
    Datadog allows you to export all of this but I don't see how that's any useful. You can't really port Datadog dashboard to let's say Grafana easily. The query languages they use do not have 1:1 mapping, the way dashboards are organized and the different visualization tools you get are not same either
    - talboren 3y ago
      they surely doesn't help with the "migration" (application layer) part but they help you manage things with code, which is better than nothing (you can do some heavy-lifting to make it work in another provider afterwards) that's the reason terraform is not really a solution for what I speak about in the blog post.

shahargl 3y ago

Cool! Never heard of it and definitely gonna check it.

shahargl 3y ago

But that’s for the data part (otel) and not the applicative part (alerts, dashboards, etc)

pranay01 3y ago

You should also check out SigNoz [1]. It's an open source observability platform with metrics, traces and logs in a single application & based natively on opentelemetry. One of the reasons many people use SigNoz is to avoid the vendor lock-in which comes with adding proprietary SDKs of closed source products like DataDog and New Relic in their code. If anyone is starting their observability journey today, I think OpenTelemetry is a very good place to start. You can instrument with Otel SDKs and chose a visualization layer/backend which suits your needs best (Disclaimer: I am maintainer at SigNoz) [1]https://github.com/signoz/signoz https://github.com/signoz/signoz

talboren 3y ago
is things such as alerts/dashboards/proprietary data is easily exportable with SigNoz? For instance if I’d like to manage them with terraform
- harpratap 3y ago
  Datadog allows you to export all of this but I don't see how that's any useful. You can't really port Datadog dashboard to let's say Grafana easily. The query languages they use do not have 1:1 mapping, the way dashboards are organized and the different visualization tools you get are not same either
  - talboren 3y ago
    they surely doesn't help with the "migration" (application layer) part but they help you manage things with code, which is better than nothing (you can do some heavy-lifting to make it work in another provider afterwards) that's the reason terraform is not really a solution for what I speak about in the blog post.