OpenTelemetry is the open-source observability standard under CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), unifying distributed traces, metrics, and logs data collection. Formed from the merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus in 2019.
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8 results shownFluentd, initiated in 2011 and donated to the CNCF in 2016 (graduated 2019), is an open-source log collector serving as a unified logging layer with 500+ plugins and multi-output routing, a mainstream log collection solution for Kubernetes.
Argo CD is a CNCF-graduated Kubernetes-native GitOps continuous delivery tool that uses Git repositories as the single source of truth for declarative app deployment, auto-sync, multi-cluster management, and security compliance.
Prometheus, started by SoundCloud in 2012, is a CNCF-graduated open-source monitoring and alerting system that uses a Pull model with built-in PromQL - the de-facto monitoring standard for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments.
Kubernetes is the open-source container orchestration platform launched by Google in 2014 and donated to CNCF, managing large-scale container clusters with declarative orchestration and auto scaling, and is the de-facto standard for cloud-native applications.
Thanos is a cloud-native open-source project providing highly available Prometheus setups and long-term storage, using a Sidecar architecture, and became a CNCF graduated project in 2021, used by thousands of enterprises for production observability.
Jaeger is a CNCF graduated open-source distributed tracing system created by Yuri Shkuro at Uber in 2015, supporting end-to-end trace analysis and OpenTelemetry protocol for microservice observability.
Envoy is a CNCF-graduated high-performance service proxy created by Lyft in 2016 and donated to CNCF, the benchmark data plane implementation for service meshes, widely used for microservice traffic management.