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Application Performance Monitoring in NetEye with Elastic APM and OpenTelemetry
Lately I’ve been receiving more and more inquiries about whether we can integrate OpenTelemetry into our NetEye system, and what the analysis would look like.
For this reason, I’d like to use this article to briefly describe the range of features we offer with our NetEye Elastic APM solution.
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring optimal performance and application reliability is crucial. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools play a vital role in achieving this by providing deep insights into application behavior and performance. Elastic APM, combined with OpenTelemetry, offers a powerful solution for comprehensive observability.
In order to meet the requirements for evaluating OpenTelemetry data with our Unified Monitoring solution, we use the already-integrated Elastic APM.
What is Elastic APM?
Elastic APM is a robust application performance monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack. It allows you to monitor software services and applications in real time, collecting detailed performance information such as response times, database queries, and external HTTP requests. Elastic APM helps pinpoint and resolve performance issues quickly, ensuring smooth and efficient application operations.
What is OpenTelemetry?
OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides APIs, SDKs, and tools for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces). It’s vendor-neutral and widely adopted across the industry, making it a versatile choice for enhancing observability in applications.
Combining Elastic APM with OpenTelemetry brings several benefits:
Unified Telemetry Data: OpenTelemetry allows you to collect telemetry data from various sources and forward it to Elastic APM for analysis. This unified approach simplifies monitoring and troubleshooting by consolidating data in one place.
Vendor-Neutral Observability: OpenTelemetry’s vendor-neutral nature ensures compatibility with various observability tools and platforms. This flexibility allows you to choose the best tools for your needs, without being locked into a specific vendor.
Integrating NetEye Elastic APM with OpenTelemetry: The main advantage of using Elastic with NetEye is that in the NetEye solution, the Elastic APM is already preconfigured and ready to use. So the Getting Started phase is quite easy.
Integrating OpenTelemetry in NetEye
NetEye Elastic APM supports various languages and frameworks, including Java, .NET, PHP, Python, and Go. OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs are used to instrument your application, which involves adding code to generate telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.
To integrate NetEye Elastic APM with OpenTelemetry, follow these steps:
Export Telemetry Data to NetEye Elastic APM: Configure OpenTelemetry to export telemetry data to NetEye Elastic APM. This typically involves setting up the OpenTelemetry Collector to forward data to NetEye Elastic APM. You can find the necessary configuration settings in the APM Integration of Elastic.
Analyze and Visualize Data: Use NetEye Elastic APM’s powerful visualization and analysis tools to gain insights into your application’s performance. Elastic APM provides features like distributed tracing, anomaly detection, and dependency mapping.
Furthermore, you can create your own dashboarding to improve the visibility of your data.
Conclusion
Integrating NetEye Elastic APM with OpenTelemetry enhances your application’s observability, providing comprehensive insights into performance and behavior. This powerful combination helps you identify and resolve issues quickly, ensuring optimal application performance and reliability.
Tobias Goller
NetEye Solution Architect at Würth Phoenix
I started my professional career as a system administrator.
Over the years, my area of responsibility changed from administrative work to the architectural planning of systems.
During my activities at Würth Phoenix, the focus of my area of responsibility changed to the installation and consulting of the IT system management solution WÜRTHPHOENIX NetEye.
In the meantime, I take care of the implementation and planning of customer projects in the area of our unified monitoring solution.
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