OpenTelemetry Observability Platform

Project overview

Built a comprehensive OpenTelemetry observability platform that revolutionized monitoring and debugging capabilities at ArborXR. The project involved instrumenting the entire product codebase with OpenTelemetry to capture logs, metrics, and traces, creating a cost-effective telemetry cluster on Kubernetes, and implementing secure data transmission via OTLP/HTTP. The platform enabled critical dashboards, alerting systems, and advanced debugging capabilities while ensuring system health through metamonitoring.

Challenges

• Instrumenting complex multi-service architecture without performance degradation
• Designing cost-effective telemetry infrastructure with high availability requirements
• Implementing secure data transmission for sensitive telemetry data
• Ensuring reliable telemetry collection across diverse technology stacks
• Managing high-volume telemetry data processing and storage efficiently

Solutions & implementation

• Strategically instrumented codebase with OpenTelemetry for comprehensive observability coverage
• Built cost-effective Kubernetes telemetry cluster with Grafana, Loki, Mimir, and Tempo
• Implemented secure OTLP/HTTP protocol for reliable telemetry data transmission
• Created critical dashboards and alerting systems for proactive monitoring
• Developed metamonitoring system to ensure telemetry cluster health and stability
• Optimized data retention and storage policies for cost-effective long-term observability

Impact & results