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Integrating trace data with the rest of your monitoring systems

Integrating trace data with the rest of your monitoring systems

From the course: DevOps Foundations: Distributed Tracing

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Integrating trace data with the rest of your monitoring systems

- [Instructor] TraceData is a great source for diagnostics, and will augment your monitoring capability. As adoption of distributed tracing grows in your organization, you may end up with a variety of instrumentation points, because different projects who have different requirements. Also, TraceData will have different consumers in your organization, and you need to devise an integration plan with the rest of your monitoring tools. The OpenCensus project aims at solving the integration gap of connecting disparate instrumentation sources to disparate consumers and monitoring engines. OpenCensus is an open-source project that originated at Google. It can handle the routing of metrics and TraceData, and also provide it's own instrumentation libraries for different languages. Here's a high level architecture diagram. The main components are the OpenCensus instrumentation libraries, the OpenCensus agents and collectors. The OpenCensus collectors, or agents, run in the application…

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