The typical flow of execution for an observability Instrument is for instrumentation within the application code to make a single call to a method defined in the Instrument interface. But there are cases where a single call into an Instrument interface causes the dispatching of multiple events.
Author: William David Louth
Scaling Observability Resources
A significant challenge in building observability agents or heavily instrumented applications or frameworks is in scaling, both up and down, the resources consumed. There is a trade-off here in terms of time and cost.
Composing Instrument Circuits
In this post, we walk through one of the showcases in the project's code repository that demonstrates how the complexity of hooking up components in a Circuit is greatly simplified.
Designing for Extensibility
The interfaces defined within Substrates API are designed with extensibility and evolution in mind, both from a client library and provider implementation perspective.
Pipelines and Projections
An objective of the Substrates API is that it should be possible for developers to be location independent in that code can execute without change within the local process itself or a remote server that is being served the data via a Relay.
Simplifying Instrument Synthesis
Three overriding principles are applied in the design of the Substrates API - consistency (standardizing), conciseness (simplifying), and correctness (sequencing).
API Design – A Moving Target
Good design takes time, over many iterations (of converging and diverging design paths), in developing, discovering, discussing, discounting, and occasionally destroying.
Data Pipeline Segmentation
The stages within a local data pipeline managed by the Substrates runtime are detailed, from a client call to an Instrument interface method to dispatching an Event to an Outlet registered by a Subscriber.
Playing with Pipelines
A walk through of one of the Substrates showcase examples hosted on GitHub, demonstrating two of the most critical aspects of pipelines – the production and consumption of captured data and published events.
Pipelines Reimagined
Using Substrates, the fusion of multiple streams of data from multiple sources, an essential process of any monitoring and management solution, can be done in-process and in real-time.