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How to Monitor SQL Server with OpenTelemetry

Oct 6, 2023 By Keith Schmitt In ObservIQ
At observIQ, we've seen growing interest in observing the health of Windows systems and applications using OpenTelemetry. Requests on the SQL Server receiver continue to garner the most interest, so let's start there. Below are steps to get up and running quickly with the contrib distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. We'll be collecting and shipping SQL Server metrics to a popular backend, Google Cloud.
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When and How to Use Aggregators

Oct 2, 2023 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
There's lots of great reasons to run OTel agents as aggregator / gateway collectors. In this video we discuss 4 of the most common! About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.
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How to Install and Configure an OpenTelemetry Collector

Sep 27, 2023 By Deepa Ramachandra In ObservIQ
In the last 12 months, there’s been significant progress in the OpenTelemetry project -- arriving in the form of contributions, stability, and adoption. Being such, it felt a good time to refresh this post, providing project newcomers a short guide to get up and running quickly. In this post, I'll step through.
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Gateways and BindPlane

Sep 21, 2023 By Dylan Myers In ObservIQ
The BindPlane Agent is a flexible tool that can be run as an agent, an aggregator, or both. As an agent the collector will be running on the same host it's collecting telemetry from, while an aggregator will collect telemetry from other agents and forward the data on to their final destination. Here are a few of the reasons you might want to consider inserting Aggregators into your pipelines: Today we will examine these reasons, and some possible architectures for implementing aggregators.
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Install the BindPlane Agent on Windows

Sep 8, 2023 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Learn how to install your first BindPlane Agent on Windows, connect it to BindPlane OP server, and start shipping logs and metrics to Google Cloud Operations About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.
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Install BindPlane OP Server

Sep 2, 2023 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Install the BindPlane OP server in under 2 minutes! It's that easy... About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.
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Deleting Fields from Logs: Why Less is Often More

Sep 1, 2023 By Ryan Goins In ObservIQ
Logs serve as an invaluable resource for monitoring system health, debugging issues, and maintaining security. But as our applications grow more complex, the volume of logs they generate is increasing exponentially. While logs are crucial, not all log data is equally valuable. With the surge in volume, costs associated with storing and analyzing logs are skyrocketing, impacting both performance and cost. The need for effective log management is more urgent than ever.
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Deleting Fields with BindPlane OP

Aug 28, 2023 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Are you ingesting unnecessary fields? See how to use the "Delete Fields" processor to remove fields from your log stream in BindPlane OP. Then use our live preview capabilities to see the changes prior to rolling out to your agents. About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.
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