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opentelemetry-proto

OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) specification and Protobuf definitions

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OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) specification and Protobuf definitions

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If you are using a Datadog, Langfuse, Langchain, or other OTEL target, you do nothing. Just query it. Build alerts, dashboards, and datasets; whatever you normally do with your OTEL collector. A forward OTEL collector deployment is still useful for filtering but the Datadog Agent, for example, already has buffering and filtering built into it. If you want to deploy your own collector and write your own handler (e.g. put it into a database), you can generate the stubs for the OTEL payloads and convert to domain records. 1. Get the protos here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto 2. Generate the type/class stubs and endpoints for your platform. 3. I strongly recommend pre-filtering with the open source `opentelemetry-collector` before your custom endpoint handles the inbound telemetry payload. The collector is optimize
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d for performing the filtering and I put it upstream of my custom ingest endpoint on a very small VM just to pre-filter and perform auth checks[0][1] on the inbound channel. 4. Do what you need to with the inbound payloads. Examples below: - Ingest endpoint (Codex/Claude -> OTEL collector -> API): https://github.com/zeeq-ai/zeeq-app/blob/main/src/backend/Ze... - Codex telemetry adapter: https://github.com/zeeq-ai/zeeq-app/blob/main/src/backend/Ze... - CC telemetry adapter: https://github.com/zeeq-ai/zeeq-app/blob/main/src/backend/Ze... I run my backend on Postgres with partitioned tables. You can forward to Elastic or other OLAP-type database targets for querying. You can see examples of what I do with the session telemetry here: https://zeeq.ai/docs/key-features/session-telemetry [0] https://github.com/zeeq-ai/zeeq-app/blob/main/build/otel-col... [1] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...
In If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
Yup! Since we're built on Otel, we suggest you can use the HTTP OTLP endpoint, which is yourdomain:4318/v1/logs, we have a quick blog post on that on how to curl a payload over: https://www.hyperdx.io/blog/testing-sending-opentelemetry-ev... But you can also look at example payloads in the otel repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/blob/m... Great call out on CF workers, will make sure we get that updated :)
In Show HN: Open-source Kibana alternative for logs and traces in ClickHouse
Oh nice, thank you (and also solumos) for the links! It looks like oteps/pull/171 (merged June 2023) expanded and superseded the opentelemetry-proto/pull/346 PR (closed Jul 2022) [0]. The former resulted in merging OpenTelemetry Enhancement Proposal 156 [1], with some interesting results especially for 'Phase 2' where they implemented columnar storage end-to-end (see the Validation section [2]): * For univariate time series, OTel Arrow is 2 to 2.5 better in terms of bandwidth reduction ... and the end-to-end speed is 3.1 to 11.2 times faster * For multivariate time series, OTel Arrow is 3 to 7 times better in terms of bandwidth reduction ... Phase 2 has [not yet] been .. estimated but similar results are expected. * For logs, OTel Arrow is 1.6 to 2 times better in terms of bandwidth reduction ... and the end-to-end speed is 2.3 to 4.86 t
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imes faster * For traces, OTel Arrow is 1.7 to 2.8 times better in terms of bandwidth reduction ... and the end-to-end speed is 3.37 to 6.16 times faster Pretty exciting results! The OTEL-Arrow adapter has subsequently been donated to the otel community; here's a comment that does a good job of summarizing the results and the recommendations that came out of the test [3]. [0]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/pull/3... [1]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/blob/main/text/0156-... [2]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/blob/main/text/0156-... [3]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/issues/1332#issu...
In OpenTelemetry in 2023

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