Awesome observability

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Observability

1. Eyer - An AI-powered observability and AIOps platform designed to provide real-time insights into complex systems and applications
2. Datadog: A cloud service that enables monitoring application performance metrics from multiple sources.
3. Instana: An observability tool that provides real-time insights into application performance and infrastructure health.
4. Honeycomb: An observability tool that helps in understanding complex systems by providing a unified view of metrics, logs, and traces.
5. Lightstep: An observability tool that provides real-time insights into application performance and infrastructure health.
6. Retrace: A tool that delivers real-time application performance monitoring and log analytics.

Monitoring

1. Prometheus - A powerful time-series database for monitoring and alerting.
2. Zabbix - An enterprise-class open-source distributed monitoring solution.
3. Nagios - An open-source monitoring system for computer systems.
4. Sensu - A flexible monitoring event pipeline.
5. VictoriaMetrics - A fast, cost-effective, and scalable monitoring solution and time-series database.
6. Icinga - An open-source monitoring system that checks the availability of your network resources.

Logging

1. ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) - A popular stack for centralized logging and search.
   • Elasticsearch
   • Logstash
   • Kibana
2. Fluentd - A data collector for a unified logging layer.
3. Graylog - An open-source log management platform.
4. Vector - A high-performance observability data pipeline.
5. Loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.

Tracing

1. Jaeger - An open-source, end-to-end distributed tracing tool.
2. Zipkin - A distributed tracing system to gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures.
3. OpenTelemetry - A set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation to provide observability for distributed systems.
4. SkyWalking - An open-source application performance monitor and observability platform.

Metrics

1. Graphite - A highly scalable real-time graphing system.
2. InfluxDB - An open-source time-series database.
3. Telegraf - A plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics.
4. Collectd - A daemon that collects, transfers, and stores performance data of computers and network equipment.

Alerting

1. Alertmanager - Handles alerts sent by Prometheus, supports deduplication, grouping, and routing.
2. Alerta - A tool used to consolidate and deduplicate alerts from multiple sources for quick ‘at-a-glance’ visualization.
3. Bosun - A time-series alerting framework developed by Stack Exchange.

APM (Application Performance Monitoring)

1. Elastic APM - Application performance monitoring with Elastic Stack.
2. New Relic - Provides real-time insights and data for application performance.
3. AppDynamics - A tool for monitoring the performance of your applications and infrastructure.

Visualization and Dashboards

1. Grafana - An open-source platform for data visualization.
2. Kibana - A browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.
3. Dashy - A self-hosted dashboard for visualizing data from various sources.
4. Chronograf - A visualization tool for time-series data.

Miscellaneous

1. Thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long-term storage capabilities.
2. Cortex - Provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
3. Kapacitor - An open-source framework for processing, monitoring, and alerting on time-series data.
4. Netdata - Real-time performance monitoring for infrastructure.
5. Sysdig - A powerful system visibility and security tool.
6. OpenNMS - An enterprise-grade network management application platform.
7. TICK Stack - Includes Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor.

Resources

• How to unlock AI-powered observability insights in your Boomi integration
• Observability, insights, and automation
• Observations on Cloud-Native Observability: A Journey From the Foundations of Observability to Surviving Its Challenges at Scale
• Emerging observability trends to watch out for
• Real-time monitoring of microservices and cloud-native applications
• Observability with Grafana and Eyer