Deploy a full cncf based observability stack in under 5 minutes with tobs

1. Deploy a full CNCF based
observability stack in under 5
mins with tobs
Introducing tobs
Vineeth Pothulapati

2. What is Observability stack?

4. ABOUT ME
● Vineeth Pothulapati 👋
● Product Manager at Timescale working on O11Y
Applications team (Promscale, Tobs)
● Maintainer for OpenTelemetry Operator
● Enjoys cycling, tasting whiskies (but not at same time
😉)

5. Metrics

6. Traces

7. Logs

8. Full Observability stack?
In under 5 mins?
Are you serious?

9. ● Metrics complete support
● Traces complete support
● Logs needs an external storage system

10. Introducing Tobs (The
Observability Stack for
Kubernetes)

11. What is Tobs?
Tobs is a CLI tool and a helm chart that aims to
make it as easy as possible to install a full
observability stack in Kubernetes clusters.
Logging stack will be supported in future versions of Tobs
https://github.com/timescale/tobs

12. Exposition
● Node Exporter
● Kube-State-Metrics

13. Visualisation
Grafana
Jaeger

14. Collection
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry

15. Storage

16. Detailed Overview
● Kube-Prometheus the Kubernetes monitoring stack
○ Prometheus to collect metrics
○ AlertManager to fire the alerts
○ Grafana to visualize what's going on
○ Node-Exporter to export metrics from the nodes
○ Kube-State-Metrics to get metrics from kubernetes api-server
○ Prometheus-Operator to manage the life-cycle of Prometheus and AlertManager custom
resource definitions (CRDs)
● Promscale to store metrics, traces for the long-term and allow analysis with both PromQL and SQL.
● Promlens tool to build and analyse promql queries with ease.
● Opentelemetry-Operator to manage the lifecycle of OpenTelemetryCollector Custom Resource
Definition (CRDs)
● Jaeger Query to visualise the traces

17. What is Promscale?

18. The observability backend
powered by SQL
Unparalleled Insights
Use the power of one database
with full SQL support to analyze
and correlate metrics, traces
and business data in one
system.
A proven foundation
Built on the petabyte-scale
foundation of TimescaleDB and
PostgreSQL, with high
availability, replication,
compression and more.
Easy to get started and use
Get started in minutes using simple
command-line instructions and
integrations with Grafana,
Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and
other tools you know and love.
https://tsdb.co/promscale

19. https://tsdb.co/promscale
*Grafana visualizes traces in Promscale by querying the Jaeger UI

20. Promscale features
● Full SQL support & Analytics on your observability data
● Storage support for metrics and traces
● High-Availability
● Multi-tenancy
● Support for Exemplars
● Continuous Aggregates for metrics
● Per metric retention
● Ingest your own time-series data alongside Prometheus data.

21. Internals of Tobs

23. Demo time!

24. Learn More
🔎 TOBS: The Observability Stack for K8s
tsdb.co/tobs-github
🐯 Promscale
github.com/timescale/promscale
🚀 Promscale Blog posts
https://blog.timescale.com/tag/observability/
🗣 Talk to the Promscale team
In TimescaleDB slack #promscale

25. We’re
hiring!
timescale.com/careers

26. Thank You!!