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OTelBin - Visualize and improve OpenTelemetry collector configurations

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OTelBin is a free editing, visualization and validation tool for OpenTelemetry collector configurations.

OTelBin helps developers create OTel configurations easily with its user-friendly interface, real-time visualization and validation capabilities.

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Ben Blackmore
Maker
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Hello, Product Hunt! We're thrilled to start with OTelBin on our mission to make observability easy for every developer! OTelBin will help developers adopt OpenTelemetry faster and more easily by providing a visual editor and validator for OTel Collector configurations. We are launching with built-in support for the OpenTelemetry community releases and the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, and we look forward to adding more! OTelBin is our first product. It is free for everyone. The full code is available under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub. Our key features are:
  • 🎨 Visual configuration: OTelBin provides an intuitive visual representation of your OpenTelemetry collector configuration. Say goodbye to trying to make sense of endless lines of YAML – see your data flow at a glance and make changes effortlessly.
  • Code editor with syntax highlighting: OTelBin includes a built-in code editor with syntax highlighting, code completion, and basic validation (YAML validity, schema and basic collector principles like that you must declare the receivers you reference). Get the best of both worlds with code-based configuration and a visual representation of your configured pipelines.
  • Real-time synchronization: The visual diagram instantly reflects changes in the code editor.
  • Opt-in version-specific validation: Depending on which components are included in a collector binary and the versions of its components, there are many version-specific aspects to fully validating a configuration. We have added support for OTelBin distributions (e.g., the official contrib and core builds) and their versions. OTelBin already supports both official builds of the OpenTelemetry collector and the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, and we would love to add more distributions with the help of their maintainers.
  • Share configurations with ease: Collaborate effortlessly with your colleagues by generating shareable URLs for your configurations.
This is just the start of our journey, and we would love to get your feedback on OTelBin. Contact me or join our OTelBin Slack channel on the official CNCF Slack.
Mirko Novakovic
Maker
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Hello, Product Hunt, Thrilled to share that alongside a brilliant team of Observability aficionados, I've embarked on a new adventure: co-founding Dash0. Following a fulfilling stint in non-operational roles and empowering promising startups, it was time for a spirited return to the startup scene, diving into a domain I'm deeply passionate about: Observability. Our collective enthusiasm at Dash0 is fueling our mission to revolutionize how developers interact with observability tools. We're committed to simplifying and enlivening the experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and other open standards, which we believe are the cornerstones of modern observability solutions. Today we're hitting the ground running with OTelBin, our first free and Open Source product designed to streamline the management of OpenTelemetry collectors for developers. As we stand on the cusp of this thrilling endeavor, your insights are invaluable. Share your thoughts on how we can further demystify Observability for every developer out there!
Hiro - Atsuhiro Teshima
@mirko_novakovic3 Congrats on the launch! OTelBin looks really handy and useful. We have open telemetry on our elixir app, but we haven't so much adapted with it yet. This is a good occasion I explore more about Open Telemetry and improve our app. Lookng forward to exploring OTelBin more!
Michele Mancioppi
Hi @atsuhiro_teshima, I am curious about your experience in adopting the OpenTelemetry Elixir SDK. Any impressions you want to share? @ben_blackmore1 started a Product Hunt discussion that may be a good forum for it: https://www.producthunt.com/disc...
Mirko Novakovic
Maker
@atsuhiro_teshima Thank you - Open Telemetry is really taking off and good to see you folks adopting it!
Hiro - Atsuhiro Teshima
πŸ’‘ Bright idea
@ben_blackmore1 @mmanciop We are using AppSignal for our APM and it support Open Telemetry out of the box, so what we currently do is only sending metrics to AppSignal.
Ben Blackmore
Maker
@mmanciop @atsuhiro_teshima Metrics are a great start! Once you start with traces, it becomes ever more powerful: On the road to observability!
Fabian Lange
Congratulations on the launch! The mission of Dash0 is incredibly compelling and starting with a really useful and easy to use open source tool is the way to go to connect to the OpenTelemetry community. Wishing you lots of success.
Marcel Sim
Maker
@codingfabian thanks fabian - would be great to hear if you got some ideas how to extend OTelBin or what you think could be another topic in the OpenTelemetry world that needs some attention?
Michael Hausenblas
Excellent tool, very useful! Thanks a bunch.
Michele Mancioppi
@mhausenblas thank you for your invaluable early feedback and insights. OTelBin supporting the AWS Distro of OpenTelemetry out of the gate was a pleasure to arrange :-)
Chris Schagen
Nice win for "getting sh*T done" folks setting up OTel collectors. And read a lot less documentation...
Marc Buchner
Congratulations on the launch and best of luck with OTelBin! πŸš€πŸ€
Michele Mancioppi
@dermarc it's a gift from Dash0 to the #OpenTelemetry community, everybody deserves easy and powerful observability :-)
Marcus Castro
Congrats on the Launch! The product is great!
Marcel Sim
Maker
@marcus_castro Thanks Marcus for the feedback - Have fun using it.
Kirill Sokol
😹 LOL
Congratulations on the launch of Dash0! It's great to see your enthusiasm and dedication to revolutionize observability tools. πŸš€ Your commitment to simplifying the experience with open standards is commendable. Now, on a lighter note: Is there a plan to celebrate each new user with a virtual observability-themed party hat in the future? πŸŽ‰πŸ˜„
Marcel Sim
Maker
@malkielfalcone Thanks for the kind words Kirill - Well, some party hats sound like a fun idea, but only with resharing of some funny pics wearing em ^^
Garen Orchyan
Congrats on the launch β€οΈπŸ¦„
Marcel Sim
Maker
@orchyan Thank you so much and good luck with your launch Garen.
Luis GuzmΓ‘n
Congrats on the launch πŸ™Œ
Marcel Sim
Maker
@lguz Thank you much Luis :) Hope this helps you in your work as well- Stay Tuned or comment what you might need in additon: https://www.producthunt.com/disc...
AndrΓ© J
What's open telemetry?
Michele Mancioppi
@sentry_co it is the most adopted open source way of collecting monitoring data (i.e., "telemetry") from applications. 2nd project in CNCF by contributor count, second only to Kubernetes itself.
Rami
πŸ’‘ Bright idea
I use all of the built in tools on Google Cloud. Is this more for people who are setting up their infrastructure from scratch?
Ben Blackmore
Maker
@kingromstar OpenTelemetry collectors are used more and more with commercial solutions like Amazon, Splunk, SumoLogic et.al. Many people can benefit from a solution such as OTelBin. No matter whether you are on-premises or within a cloud :)
Bruno Raljić
Congrats on the launch @mirko_novakovic3! I saw on LinkedIn today you've gathered a great team. All the best with OTelBin and Dash0! Looking forward to see where this journey will end. Keep up the good work 🀘
Marcel Sim
Maker
@mirko_novakovic3 @bruno_raljic much appreciated - we will push hard to support the community with best services :) keep you posted.
Michele Mancioppi
OTelBin is Dash0's introductory present to the OpenTelemetry community. We are looking forward to feedback here on Product Hunt, the GitHub repository ( https://github.com/dash0hq/otelbin/ ) or the CNCF's #otelbin channel!
Magna Ding
Congrats! Very Impressive Tool!
Marcel Sim
Maker
@magnading Thanks a lot magna. If you have any ideas for OTelBin or which other Observability challenges you might get solves - shout it out :)
Felix Warschewski
Congrats, best of luck on the journey. πŸš€
Marcel Sim
Maker
@felix_warschewski thanks felix - who broad is OpenTelemetry in use at your projects already?
Felix Warschewski
@marcel_sim depends on size of the clients and apps/ops to monitor. But almost every bigger company has nowadays atleast third vendor products with APIs to OpenTelemetry and little scripts ins Open running.
Aswath Subramanian
Congratulations on the Launch!
Ghost Kitty
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Marcel Sim
Maker
@servelogy_technologies thanks a lot :) enjoy it and we hope it helps in your daily work.
Ghost Kitty
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