Optimizing Observability Pipelines

The cloud environment has generated an unprecedented volume of data, making it increasingly difficult for enterprises to manage. With multiple SaaS and cloud-based applications in play, differentiating which data needs processing for analysis versus storage for regulatory compliance is a significant challenge. The growing number of data sources only complicates this further.

So, getting clarity and control over this chaos is the goal, without having to overhaul your entire system. But what’s the best way to approach optimizing your current stack? We commonly see these three challenges:

1. Simplify: Streamline the management of all your telemetry agents and data collection processes. This reduces complexity and improves operational efficiency.
2. Standardize: Adopt open standards like OpenTelemetry to ensure a vendor-agnostic approach, making your systems more interoperable and flexible.
3. Reduce: Lower data volumes to cut costs and drive efficiencies in data management and backend monitoring solutions.

By focusing on these three challenges, enterprises can better manage observability pipelines, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency.

Simplify Your Cloud Migration with an Observability Pipeline

We work with customers embarking on cloud migration to design observability pipelines that accelerate the process. Many customers are still and will remain at least partially on-prem for various reasons and want complete control within their firewall. In both scenarios, they need to contain the growing chaos surrounding agent management and observability and be able to quickly gather, process, and transmit the telemetry data from any source to any destination.

And for the actual developer teams – the hands-on keyboard folks – they want to be able to wrap their heads around managing the complexity of thousands of agents. With valuable time saved, they can focus on critical tasks.

Embrace Flexibility with OpenTelemetry

Choosing your preferred monitoring tools on the back end is ideal, which is why OpenTelemetry has become so popular. It simplifies the ingestion process across multi-vendor environments and enhances distribution within organizations. It initially focuses on logs, followed by metrics and traces. The flexibility counteracts the constraints of any single log management tool.

For example, a major US healthcare provider was grappling with challenges related to size and complexity and looked to modernize its observability environment. They made a significant investment in enterprise tools like Splunk, New Relic, Elastic, and Datadog. By standardizing on OpenTelemetry, the eliminated vendor lock-in, giving users the freedom to choose the best monitoring solution for their specific use cases.

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Navigating Compliance and Security While Reducing Data Complexity

Many enterprise customers operate within strict compliance and regulatory environments that vary across regions and countries. This requires maintaining some amount of data in perpetuity—raising the question of which data to analyze and which to keep for compliance. Coupled with tight security requirements, the complexity increases.

Of course, not all data is created equal, so having a tool to help gather, process, and route to the correct destination is critical. By sending the appropriate data to the right tool, they save on volume and costs of analyzing and storing it.

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Simplify Telemetry Pipeline Management and Cut Costs with BindPlane

Enterprises strive to streamline their telemetry pipelines, reduce data storage costs, and minimize the time spent managing complex tasks. But the increasing amount of data, a wide range of vendors, and more applications are making this challenging for DevOps teams and affecting the bottom line.

That’s why we’re seeing so much interest in BindPlane, the industry's first OTel-native telemetry platform. It addresses these issues by providing exceptional visibility across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments. It standardizes telemetry creation, transmission, and processing according to the OpenTelemetry standard, while seamlessly integrating with existing telemetry streams.

To learn more about getting started with BindPlane OP, visit https://observiq.com/solutions.

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