Open Telemetry Integration

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Observability

Since Tilebox Workflows is designed to be a general-purpose workflow orchestrator, and supports distributed execution out of the box, sophisticated observability is a key feature. To build reliable and efficient workflows, it’s important to be able to understand and observe the execution of workflows and their tasks. This section covers techniques to gain insights into the execution of your workflows.

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Open Telemetry

Tilebox Workflows is built with OpenTelemetry in mind. OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs and libraries that are used to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for distributed systems.

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Integrations

Tilebox implements exporting of telemetry data using the OpenTelemetry Protocol.

One service that supports this protocol is Axiom, a cloud-based observability and telemetry platform. Tilebox Workflows comes with built-in support for Axiom, and the examples and screenshots in this section come from this integration.

But additionally any other OpenTelemetry-compatible backend, such as OpenTelemetry Collector or Jaeger can also be used to collect telemetry data produced by Tilebox Workflows.