ThousandEyes for OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source, vendor-neutral standard for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data for cloud-native applications. It provides observability through metrics, logs, and traces, enabling better monitoring, debugging, and optimization of services.

The ThousandEyes for OpenTelemetry integration allows you to stream ThousandEyes telemetry data in OpenTelemetry format. You can seamlessly integrate this data with platforms like Splunk Observability Cloud, Grafana, Honeycomb, and other OpenTelemetry-compatible systems.

Observability and Big Data Platforms

You can integrate ThousandEyes OpenTelemetry streams with any observability platform such as the following:

• Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise

• Splunk Observability Cloud

• Dynatrace

• Elastic

• Grafana

• Honeycomb

• New Relic

• ServiceNow Cloud Observability (Formerly Lightstep)

• SigNoz

Key Features

• Standardized Telemetry: Export ThousandEyes metrics and traces in the OpenTelemetry format.

• Platform Compatibility: Integrate ThousandEyes telemetry with your existing observability tools such as Splunk and Grafana.

• Flexible Configuration: Configure telemetry streams using the ThousandEyes UI or API.

• Scalable Data Pipelines: Stream and enrich ThousandEyes network test data to custom endpoints.

• Unified Analysis: Analyze ThousandEyes network telemetry data alongside application and infrastructure data.

• Efficient Troubleshooting: Streamline root cause analysis for network and application performance issues.

Core Components

ThousandEyes for OpenTelemetry includes:

• Data Streaming APIs and UI Configuration: Configure and enable telemetry streams either programmatically using the API or interactively through the ThousandEyes UI.

• Streaming Pipelines: Fetch, enrich, and push ThousandEyes telemetry data to endpoints.

• Third-Party Collectors: OpenTelemetry-compatible tools (collectors) that receive, transform, filter, and export different metrics to client applications such as AppDynamic, or any other OTel-capable client configuration, before exporting it to observability platforms.

• Observability Platform Integration: Final destinations like Splunk, Grafana, and Honeycomb where telemetry data is analyzed and visualized.

Supported Signals

ThousandEyes supports telemetry streaming for various network test types. See the ThousandEyes for OpenTelemetry Data Model section for detailed metrics and signals.