Ingest metric and trace data
Chronosphere Observability Platform supports two Collectors to ingest metric and trace data, the Chronosphere Collector and the OpenTelemetry Collector. Observability Platform also supports direct metric imports from Google Cloud.
Chronosphere Collector or OpenTelemetry Collector
Your Collector selection depends on the telemetry data you plan to ingest.
Chronosphere recommends using the vendor-supported, optimized, and highly performant Chronosphere Collector for Prometheus discovery and scrape workloads. This use case typically works best with metrics data.
Use the OpenTelemetry Collector if your organization uses OpenTelemetry SDKs for app instrumentation. An added benefit of using the OpenTelemetry Collector is you can configure dynamic, remotely configurable head sampling, which is a powerful control mechanism for managing your tracing costs. Observability Platform supports the OpenTelemetry JaegerRemoteSampler (opens in a new tab) head sampling standard for remotely controlling the sampling configuration of OpenTelemetry SDKs.
| Chronosphere Collector | OpenTelemetry Collector |
|---|---|
| Proprietary | Open source |
| Fully supported by Chronosphere Support | Exporter configuration support |
| No remote trace sampling support | Remote trace sampling support |
Chronosphere doesn't provide customer support for OpenTelemetry components.
Google Cloud
Observability Platform can import metrics data directly from Google Cloud. Google Cloud metrics map closely to the default Prometheus metrics that Observability Platform uses.