observIQ + BindPlane: It’s Heating Up!

As the summer heats up, so does innovation at observIQ. We are thrilled to announce a number of exciting updates for BindPlane, the industry’s first OTel-native telemetry pipeline. Read on for a summary of what’s new in BindPlane, themed and tuned with the excitement and energy of NBA Jam’s legendary announcer, Tim Kritzow.

1. Intelligent Controls: Boomshakalaka!

At observIQ, our team is obsessed with refining and expanding BindPlane’s Total Control ™ feature set--ensuring teams have all the necessary tools and levers required to build an actionable telemetry pipeline. Here are some of the latest enhancements:

• Smart Processors: From the Snapshots page, BindPlane now intelligently suggests useful processors such as Remove Empty Fields, Filter by Severity, and Deduplicate Logs so teams can quickly reduce and get to value. If a known pattern is detected, the user can view, edit, and apply suggested processors to their pipeline with just a few clicks.

• Field Inspection: We also recently unveiled new functionality on our Snapshots page, allowing users to easily add useful processors to their pipeline to reduce and refine data in their pipeline.
• Snapshot Search: Teams can now easily search their incoming data to identify new reduction vectors.
• Filter by Condition (with OTTL): Teams can rapidly implement and filter their data by condition, simplifying OTel’s powerful (though a bit complex) OpenTelemetry Transport Language (OTTL). Check out one of our recent blog posts if you’d like to learn more about OTTL.
• Progressive Rollouts: With Progressive Rollout, teams can utilize attributes and labels to safely push OTel configurations in staged deployments before they go live in production.
• Improved Color Coding and Context: This is a simple but valuable enhancement for those of us who aren’t robots. It’s now much easier to see the before-and-after changes in your configuration and live data after a transform processor has been applied.

2. New Resources: Is it the shoes?

BindPlane now features several new Sources, Processors, and Destinations, expanding BindPlane’s OOTB collection, processing, and transmission capabilities. For each, we focused on a few critical areas that our customers have been asking for:

Sources

Cloud

• AWS Cloudwatch: gathers telemetry from Cloudwatch API
• AWS S3: gathers and rehydrates data from S3 storage buckets
• Azure Blob Storage: gathers and rehydrates data from Azure blog storage buckets

Testing and Validation

• Telemetry Generator: generates synthetic telemetry for building and validating pipelines without requiring a live source

Self-Observability

• BindPlane Gateway Source simplifies the creation of an OpenTelemtery Gateway by providing additional context and visual distinction when compared against a generic OTLP source
• BindPlane Agent: exposes telemetry about your fleet of BindPlane Agents
• BindPlane OP: exposes telemetry about your BindPlane Instance

Processors

Enrichment

• Lookup Fields: The Lookup Fields processor can be used to add matching telemetry fields from a CSV file, facilitating complex, long-form data enrichment from external data sources.

Filtering

• Filter by Condition: this processor drastically simplifies implementing processing rules with the OpenTelemetry Transport Language (OTTL) enabling users to filter with operators and common expressions.

Parsing

• Parse CSV
• Parse Key Value Pair
• Parse XML

Destinations:

o11y

• Observe
• Snowflake
• InfluxDB

SIEM

• Google Security Operations
• Sumo Logic

3. Resource Library: From Downtown!

With BindPlane’s new Resource Library, users can now create and manage reusable Sources, Processors, and Destinations. Teams can create a resource once and easily insert it into one or many OTel configurations used by multiple teams spanning multiple deployments.

BindPlane Cloud - Ready to Launch: Count It!

After a successful beta phase, BindPlane Cloud is ready to launch! Cloud will soon go live, with all of BindPlane’s best features with the combined benefits that a SaaS platform provides: scalability, security, and redundancy. Cloud also adds SSO and additional authentication options.

Interested? You can sign up for the free tier of BindPlane OP Cloud here to start your migration to OTel today.

observIQ + BindPlane: We’re on Fire! (in a good, streaky, NBA Jam type of way)

It’s been an exciting summer for us at observIQ. The interest in OpenTelemetry and telemetry pipelines is certainly heating up. We take pride in the problems we’re helping our customers solve - we’re excited to deliver more solutions to our customers in 2024.

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