Introduction
Introduction
This lab will be looking at advanced techniques available with the Cisco Observability Platform for modeling telemetry data. But before starting, let’s get a very high level understanding of some basic concepts.
What is OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry is a vendor-agnostic and tool-agnostic observability framework and toolkit with the purpose of creating and managing telemetry data. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project that is the result of the merging of two projects that both aimed to solve the problem of standardizing the gathering and sending telemetry data. There are several core tenets that define OpenTelemetry’s mission and vision, the following two of which are very applicable for today’s lab:
- Telemetry should be vendor-neutral
- Telemetry should be loosely coupled
While OpenTelemetry got its start in the world of application and infrastructure telemetry, the core principles of OpenTelemetry can be applied to anything. Whether it’s network telemetry, business KPIs, operational technology, or something else, the idea of OpenTelemetry works for all of these. In short, if it can be measured or traced, it can be observed.
In the next two sections, we will be reviewing the architecture of the Cisco Observability Platform as well as diving into the architecture of the lab scenario.