Re:I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
by thephyber on Friday January 10, 2025 @09:03PM
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Tempo is a traces server. Prometheus is a metrics server.
Grafana, the same company that develops and sells Tempo created a horizontally scalable version of Prometheus called Mimir.
OpenTelemetry is an ecosystem, not just 1 app. It’s protocols, libraries, specs, a Collector (which acts as a clearinghouse for metrics+traces+logs data). It’s bigger than just Tempo. The intention of Patel seems to be to decouple the protocol from the app by having adapters for all of the pieces.
Grafana, the same company that develops and sells Tempo created a horizontally scalable version of Prometheus called Mimir.
OpenTelemetry is an ecosystem, not just 1 app. It’s protocols, libraries, specs, a Collector (which acts as a clearinghouse for metrics+traces+logs data). It’s bigger than just Tempo. The intention of Patel seems to be to decouple the protocol from the app by having adapters for all of the pieces.