You may have previously heard about OpenTelemetry (also known as OTel) if you have looked into improved ways of standardising different data types. In this article, we’ll delve into the key things you need to know about OpenTelemetry and how this unified standard may become the future of how logs, metrics, events and traces are all handled.
As organisations increasingly send their logs to one service, their metrics to another and their traces to a third location, they remain unable to gain a unified view across all of their data types. This is because as multiple tools are used to achieve similar goals for different data types the issue of tool sprawl quickly arises.
For the next interview in our series speaking to technology specialists from around the world, we’ve welcomed experienced CTO, Leonard Trigg. Leonard is a member of the Harbourfront executive management team and serves as the firm's Chief Technology Officer. Joining the industry in 1995 Leonard has a background in enterprise technology, finance and operations. Leonard previously served as the Chief Operating Officer and Director at Vertex One Asset Management Inc.
Kibana is a popular user interface used for data visualisation and for creating detailed reporting dashboards. This piece of software notably makes up a key part of the Elastic Stack alongside Elasticsearch and the extract, transform and load (ETL) tool, Logstash. In this comprehensive introduction to Kibana, we are covering all of the basics that you will need to know as a user considering using Kibana for your log data visualisation and reporting needs.
