Supported ingestion methods
Observability Platform supports multiple methods to ingest telemetry data, which depend on which type of data you want to ingest:
After ingesting telemetry data, you can use the control mechanisms that Observability
Platform provides to control costs and ensure you’re ingesting only the
data you care about.
OpenTelemetry support
For more information about using OpenTelemetry to ingest logs, metrics, and traces, see OpenTelemetry support in Observability Platform.Ingestion models
Chronosphere utilizes push and pull models of ingestion, depending on the data collected and the method of ingestion.
Pull models, like the Chronosphere Collector, scrape telemetry data from external
sources and pull it in. These metrics have consistent reporting intervals.
Push models, like tracing, send telemetry data to Chronosphere, which is then
processed. These metrics can have a broad spectrum of reporting frequency, from large
bursts of data to long periods with no data reporting.
The ingestion model depends on the telemetry data source. Metrics pushed to
Observability Platform can have latency delays
or sparse time series,
which can result in unexpected query results.