Chris Engelbert, a senior developer advocate at Instana, discusses the debate between observability-centric and agnostic approaches, touching on various metrics and integration challenges. He presents the pros and cons of domain-centric versus domain-agnostic data collection methods, emphasizing data quality and ease of setup. The session invites audience interaction, indicating a collaborative discussion on the topic.

1. Chris Engelbert
Senior Developer Advocate @ Instana
@noctarius2k
Road to Observability
Centric or Agnostic: That is the Question

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Performance Metrics
Health Metrics
Dependencies
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Distributed Traces
Context
Metadata
Infrastructure Changes
End-User Monitoring
SLA
SLO
Cloud Metrics
Alerts

4. Chris Engelbert
Senior Developer Advocate @Instana
10+ Years of Software Engineering
Java, Go, Python, C/C++, …

5. Co-Speaker: Stan
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16. VS
Domain - Centric
Domain - Agnostic

17. Domain - Centric

18. Domain - Agnostic

19. One-style collector
Consistent data quality
Quick and easy getting started
Domain - Centric

20. Very opinionated
Less systems support
Integration with external tools
Domain - Centric

21. Reuse existing data collectors
Broader systems support
Visualization Freedom
Domain - Agnostic

22. Many vastly di
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Varying data quality
Harder to setup
Domain - Agnostic

24. Stan loves Data!

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