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Published inMay 2022
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ISBN-139781801077705
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Alex Boten
Alex Boten
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Alex Boten

Alex Boten is a senior staff software engineer that has spent the last ten years helping organizations adapt to a cloud-native landscape. From building core network infrastructure to client mobile applications and everything in between, Alex has first-hand knowledge of how difficult troubleshooting distributed applications is. This led him to the domain of observability and to contributing to related open source projects. An approver and maintainer in several OpenTelemetry projects, Alex has helped implement and evolve the project from its early days in 2019 into the massive community effort that it is today. Alex has contributed to the Python and Go OpenTelemetry implementations, as well as to the specification and the collector projects. More than anything, Alex by codeboten on Twitter loves making sense of the technology around us and sharing his learnings with others.
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Backend options for analyzing telemetry data

The world of observability contains an abundance of tools to provide you with insights into what systems are doing. Within OpenTelemetry, a backend is the destination of the telemetry data and is where it is stored and analyzed. All the telemetry backends that we will explore in this chapter provide the following:

  • A destination for the telemetry data. This is usually in the form of a network endpoint, but not always.
  • Storage for the telemetry data. The retention period that's supported by the storage is determined by the size of the storage and the amount of data being stored.
  • Visualization tooling for the data. All the tools we'll use provide a web interface for displaying and querying telemetry data.

In OpenTelemetry, applications connect to backends via exporters, two of which we've already configured: the console exporter and the OTLP exporter. Each application can be configured to send data directly...

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Alex Boten is a senior staff software engineer that has spent the last ten years helping organizations adapt to a cloud-native landscape. From building core network infrastructure to client mobile applications and everything in between, Alex has first-hand knowledge of how difficult troubleshooting distributed applications is. This led him to the domain of observability and to contributing to related open source projects. An approver and maintainer in several OpenTelemetry projects, Alex has helped implement and evolve the project from its early days in 2019 into the massive community effort that it is today. Alex has contributed to the Python and Go OpenTelemetry implementations, as well as to the specification and the collector projects. More than anything, Alex by codeboten on Twitter loves making sense of the technology around us and sharing his learnings with others.
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