I happen to work with otel a lot so I'll offer a few of my thoughts:
- Consider decoupling your collector from whatever is consuming your traces with something like kafka. Traces can be pretty heavy and it can be tricky to scale collectors. If something goes down, it's probably a good idea to continue writing the traces to queue or topic.
I've been putting off a self-hosted observability setup for a long time.
Any recommendations on basis ease of setup and operation? (For something low-medium scale).
My ideal setup would be to just write SQL on telemetry data and plot dashboards / set alerts.
bfors•1h ago
- Consider decoupling your collector from whatever is consuming your traces with something like kafka. Traces can be pretty heavy and it can be tricky to scale collectors. If something goes down, it's probably a good idea to continue writing the traces to queue or topic.
- https://www.otelbin.io is a nice little tool to help with collector configuration
akshayKMR•17m ago
My ideal setup would be to just write SQL on telemetry data and plot dashboards / set alerts.
Also, thoughts on Vector vs otel agent?