# Observability Ecosystem

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/observability-ecosystem
- Date: 2024-09-21
- Tags: observability

## Papers

_Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure_ ([Sigelman et al. 2010](http://research.google.com/archive/papers/dapper-2010-1.pdf))

## Collectors

- [Buz](https://buz.dev/) serverless, auto-scaling collector
that you can deploy and run yourself. Buz collects, validates, and delivers schematized data to where it needs to *bee*.

Sources:

- Event-tracking SDK's like Snowplow Analytics (Segment and others in development)
- Self-describing payloads
- Webhooks
- Pixels
- Cloudevents

Destinations:

- Databases like Postgres, Mysql, or Clickhouse
- Streaming tech like Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or Redpanda
- Hybrids like Kinesis Firehose
- Message brokers like NATS or RabbitMQ
- Indexes like Elasticsearch or Splunk

[Quickstart](https://buz.dev/examples/quickstart) talks about using redpanda with Buz.


## Tracing

[OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/)

## Providers

[Observability for Distributed Services | Honeycomb](https://www.honeycomb.io/); Charity Major, author of many o11y blog posts, and talks works at honeycomb.

## References

- Sigelman, Barroso, Burrows, Stephenson, Plakal, Beaver, Jaspan, Shanbhag (2010). [Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure](http://research.google.com/archive/papers/dapper-2010-1.pdf).