Blog post: https://bit.do/telemetry-temple TEMPLE - Six Pillars of Telemetry E - Exceptions L - Logs P - Profiles M - Metrics E - Events T - Traces Photo by Dario Crisafulli on Unsplash
Traces The “new cool kid on the block” pillar Root cause isolation, and more End-to-end monitoring Distributed (hard to bill for usage) Capture causality (DAG) Workflow centric Request-scoped logs
Events The misunderstood pillar Lower volume Strong identity High reliability requirement Shape: structured logs Change events Everything is an “event”
Conclusion Don’t take it seriously There are more than “3 pillars” The term TEMPLE is awesome The boundaries are diffuse Pillars ≠ observability, just data