Spatial – Local versus Remote

For Humainary, the goal is to encourage the analytical processing of observations at the source of event emittance and the moment of the situation as much as possible. To propagate assessments, not data. For OpenTelemetry, the focus is on moving as much data as possible along delineated pipelines to a remote endpoint.

Humainary – Signaling Circuits

The approach taken with Humainary is to enable the effective and efficient design, development, and deployment of Observability signaling circuitry that operates primarily locally by default but can operate in a remote or simulated mode. We envisage engineers being able to rapidly innovate in designing and developing novel instruments for measuring, sensing, observing, analyzing, reasoning, and reacting to behavior and structural changes as they happen. Humainary offers out-of-the-box channels of communication and coordination across a diverse set of instrument libraries that operate in near-real-time and within the local process space of a (micro)service. Remote communication occurs only when data has been transformed into information at higher-order levels and scales.

OpenTelemetry – Pipes and Points

The OpenTelemetry approach is akin to connecting a network cable to an outbound port and letting packets pass without inspection. This proposed standard is driven by application performance vendors and ex-Google engineers who want to reinvent the application response measurement (ARM) standard to solve the 20-plus-year-old problem of tag-and-trace requests across processes.