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OpenCensus
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OpenCensus

#3in Performance Monitoring
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What is OpenCensus?

It is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metrics and distributed traces, then transfer the data to a backend of your choice in real time. This data can be analyzed by developers and admins to understand the health of the application and debug problems.

OpenCensus is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Standard wire protocolsConsistent APIs for handling trace and metric data

OpenCensus Pros & Cons

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OpenCensus Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to OpenCensus?

New Relic

New Relic

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Kibana

Kibana

Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.

Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.

Datadog

Datadog

Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!

Prometheus

Prometheus

Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

Nagios

Nagios

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.

OpenCensus Integrations

Prometheus, Stackdriver, Datadog, SignalFx, Zipkin and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenCensus. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with OpenCensus.

Prometheus
Prometheus
Stackdriver
Stackdriver
Datadog
Datadog
SignalFx
SignalFx
Zipkin
Zipkin
LightStep
LightStep
Jaeger
Jaeger
Wavefront
Wavefront
Solarwinds
Solarwinds
Postmates API
Postmates API
Instana
Instana
Honeycomb
Honeycomb

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