Discussion

OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha

secondcoming: > Continuously capturing low-overhead performance profiles in productionIt suprises me that anything designed by the OTel community could ever meet 'low-overhead' expectations.

phillipcarter: Anything to actually add?

felixge: OTel Profiling SIG maintainer here: I understand your concern, but we’ve tried our best to make things efficient across the protocol and all involved components.Please let us know if you find any issues with what we are shipping right now.

genthree: Relatedly: Has anyone profiled the performance and reliability characteristics of rsyslogd (Linux and FreeBSD distributed syslogger, maybe other platforms too) in its mode where it’s shipping logs to a central node? I’ve configured and used it with relatively small (high single digit nodes, bursts of activity to a million or two requests per minute or so) set-ups but have wondered if there’s a reason it’s not a more common solution for distributed logging and tracing (yes it doesn’t solve the UI problem for those, but it does solve collecting your logs)Like… has anyone done a Jepsen-like stress test on rsyslogd and shared the results? I’ve half-assedly looked before and not been able to find anything.