Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel | Hacker News
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Scaling our Observability platform beyond 100 Petabytes by embracing wide events and replacing OTel
Read how we scaled our observability platform from 19PB to 100PB and 500 trillion rows by replacing OpenTelemetry with a native ClickHouse-to-ClickHouse pipeline, embracing wide events and cutting CPU usage by 90%.
All you need is Wide Events, not “Metrics, Logs and Traces”
This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion. Everyone is confused. What is a trace? What is a span? Is log line a span? Do I need traces if I have logs? Why I need traces if I have great metrics? The list of questions like these goes on. Charity - together with other great folks from observability system called
All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" | Hacker News
Migrating to OpenTelemetry | Hacker News
Observability (software) - Wikipedia
Observability (software) - Wikipedia
OpenTelemetry
High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability
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Migrating to OpenTelemetry | Airplane
Where I first learned about the concept of observability
Distributed Systems Observability
Chapter 4. The Three Pillars of Observability Logs, metrics, and traces are often known as the three pillars of observability. While plainly having access to logs, metrics, and traces doesn’t … - Selection from Distributed Systems Observability [Book]