Data costs fill a large column in many organizations’ accounting sheets. Data pipeline setup and management is a large time sink for DevOps, IT, and SRE. Setting up telemetry pipelines to reduce unwanted data often takes even more time that could better be spent creating value rather than reducing costs. This blog will show you one way to quickly set up your data pipeline to filter unnecessary telemetry data.

With observIQ’s latest contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free open source tools to easily monitor Aerospike. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is with observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. You can find it here. In this blog, the Aerospike receiver is configured to monitor metrics locally with OTLP–you can use the Aerospike receiver to ship metrics to many popular analysis tools, including Google Cloud, New Relic, and more.

Monitor Vault in Google Cloud Platform with the Google Ops Agent. The Ops Agent is available on GitHub, and makes it easy to collect and ship telemetry from dozens of sources directly to your Google Cloud Platform. You can check it out here! Below are steps to get up and running quickly with observIQ’s Google Cloud Platform integrations, and monitor metrics and logs from Vault in your Google Cloud Platform.