Chris Engelbert
Senior Developer Advocate @ Instana
@noctarius2k
Road to Observability
Centric or Agnostic: That is the Question
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Performance Metrics
Health Metrics
Dependencies
Pro
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Distributed Traces
Context
Metadata
Infrastructure Changes
End-User Monitoring
SLA
SLO
Cloud Metrics
Alerts
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Chris Engelbert
Senior Developer Advocate @Instana
10+ Years of Software Engineering
Java, Go, Python, C/C++, …
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Co-Speaker: Stan
Stan has a Secret!
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VS
Domain - Centric
Domain - Agnostic
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Domain - Centric
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Domain - Agnostic
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One-style collector
Consistent data quality
Quick and easy getting started
Domain - Centric
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Very opinionated
Less systems support
Integration with external tools
Domain - Centric
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Reuse existing data collectors
Broader systems support
Visualization Freedom
Domain - Agnostic
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Many vastly di
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erent collectors
Varying data quality
Harder to setup
Domain - Agnostic