Chronosphere Open Source
Open Source
Creating Observability Solutions with Open Source
What does Open Source mean to Chronosphere and how we ensure your observability solutions are embracing open standards.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This is the foundation for cloud native computing and the challenge facing cloud native observability solutions.
Pipelines with Fluent Bit
Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and scalable telemetry data agent and processor for logs, metrics, and traces. With over 15 billion Docker pulls, Fluent Bit is the industry standard for Kubernetes and major cloud providers, including Google, Amazon, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft.
Metrics with Prometheus
Prometheus is the de facto standard for monitoring cloud native environments. Originally developed at SoundCloud in 2012 when a move to microservices resulted in an increase of metrics data that was challenging for previous monitoring stacks it features a multi-dimensional data model, pull-based system, vibrant ecosystem of integrations. Prometheus was the second project to join the CNCF after Kubernetes and reached Graduations status in 2018.
Traces with OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry is an observability framework and toolkit focused on the generation, collection, management and export of application and infrastructure data. It is the industry standard for generating distributed traces and joined the CNCF in 2019, current status is Incubating.
Observability at Scale
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Open Source FAQs
What is Open Source?
The ability to generate, collect and forward telemetry from up and down your stack using open standards, APIs, SDKs, agents and collectors. The projects on this page Fluent Bit, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and Perses are all great examples of open source observability technologies.
Why Open Source?
When organizations design cloud native observability solutions, standardization and interoperability are the key benefits to adopting open observability standards. Over time, these open standards and tools provide for stable architectural components and can be chosen from multiple providers, both open source and vendor specific.
How is Open Source Supported?
Chronosphere was founded on the principle that open source observability standards and instrumentation are the past, present and future. Our founders, Martin and Rob, created M3, an open source Prometheus compatible scalable metrics engine while on the monitoring team at Uber.
We support open source in a variety of ways: the product integrates with popular open standards like OpenTelemetry/OTLP, Prometheus, StatsD, we are stewards of the projects Fluent Bit and Fluentd, and as an organization are CNCF members providing several CNCF Ambassadors.