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OpenTelemetry vs Kibana: What are the differences?
OpenTelemetry: A single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. It provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools; Kibana: Explore & Visualize Your Data. 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.
OpenTelemetry and Kibana belong to "Monitoring Tools" category of the tech stack.
Kibana is an open source tool with 14.9K GitHub stars and 6.02K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kibana's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Kibana
- Easy to setup88
- Free64
- Can search text45
- Has pie chart21
- X-axis is not restricted to timestamp13
- Easy queries and is a good way to view logs8
- Supports Plugins6
- Dev Tools4
- More "user-friendly"3
- Can build dashboards3
- Out-of-Box Dashboards/Analytics for Metrics/Heartbeat2
- Easy to drill-down2
- Up and running1
Pros of OpenTelemetry
- OSS1
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Cons of Kibana
- Unintuituve6
- Elasticsearch is huge4
- Hardweight UI3
- Works on top of elastic only3
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