Processors: these define what to do with telemetry data once received, such as transformations, routing, redaction, and more.

A wide array of different receivers are supported, and the list is constantly growing.

Receivers: these provide a way to get data into the Collector these can be push or pull based.

The Collector has a modular design, made up of a few core components: The Collector is a single process capable of scraping various telemetry data formats (metrics, logs, and traces), such as Prometheus metrics, transforming them into the common OTLP format, and exporting them to various external targets, such as (but not limited to) Datadog. The project is an evolution formed through a merger of the older (and soon deprecated) OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects, and is strongly backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.Īs mentioned before, a key piece of this initiative is the OpenTelemetry Collector. The OpenTelemetry framework is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs for cloud-native software that makes it easy to instrument, collect, and export telemetry data. This blog post discusses the capabilities of the OpenTelemetry Collector and how we introduced it into our cloud infrastructure. Therefore, we need a platform for third party monitoring integrations that’s flexible enough to support both the platforms of today, as well as those of tomorrow.įor Cockroach Labs, we chose the OpenTelemetry Collector to serve as such a platform and to integrate with Datadog as the first of what we hope to someday be a substantial library of third party integrations. But with so many platforms available in the ever-changing observability market today, like Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch, and more, how do we stay flexible in our observability tooling? The popular tools of today are not guaranteed to stand the test of time.

Many organizations already have a platform in place to monitor their systems, and we’d like them to feel right at home when it comes to monitoring their CockroachDB cluster.

When it comes to monitoring our cloud products, such as CockroachDB Dedicated, meeting our customers where they are is one of our primary goals. Over the past year, Cockroach Labs has been working hard to give our observability tooling some extra love.

Datadog process monitoring