Leveraging OpenTelemetry for Your Prometheus Pipeline - Goutham Veeramachaneni, Grafana Labs
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2022-10-28

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Leveraging OpenTelemetry for Your Prometheus Pipeline - Goutham Veeramachaneni, Grafana Labs

OpenTelemetry metrics are now GA and it promises to be fully compatible with Prometheus! People are looking to use OTel to migrate from their existing monitoring system to Prometheus or use one of the many data transformation capabilities of the Collector. But trying to use it with Prometheus throws a lot of questions: 1. What are the advantages of using OTel in my Prometheus pipeline? 2. Which of the 3 Prometheus receivers and 3 Prometheus exporters do I use, and when to use which? 3. Can I replace Prometheus or the agent with the OTel Collector? 4. Can I use Prometheus instrumented applications with OTel and vice-versa? When does it make sense to rewrite your instrumentation? 5. What is the migration path I could use? Come attend this talk by Goutham Veeramachaneni for answers to the above questions and understand the different components inside OTel Metrics and how they interact with the Prometheus eco-system. The talk will dive into the common scenarios and pipelines, the gotchas and when and how to migrate from Prometheus to OTel for metrics and vice-versa.