F5 continued its support for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s framework, OpenTelemetry. With standardised collection of tools, it helps IT teams analyse the performance and behavior of their solutions by generating, capturing, and exporting telemetry metrics, logs, and traces.
Code contribution
Around 40,000 lines of code were contributed by F5 in a development partnership with ServiceNow, quadrupling the minimum production of a typical software developer (10,000 lines of code) and much higher than common open-source projects (35,000 lines of code). This code contribution doubles the protocol compression ratio and reduces bandwidth costs for high-volume telemetry initiatives and AI-driven projects.
Laurent Quérel, the project lead, and engineer at F5 said that compression rates are crucial for organisations to experience the benefits of comprehensive telemetry more cost-efficiently. However, it comes as a challenge when large amounts of data are generated through modern networking solutions and applications.
Cost- efficiency
“While today’s enterprises are much better suited to capture and analyse data versus their historical counterparts, challenges have persisted around effective transport, centralisation, and standardisation, which is why F5 has invested in the OpenTelemetry project. By adopting OpenTelemetry across the F5 portfolio—and continuing to participate in leading open source efforts with organisations like ServiceNow—we see limitless use cases to make applications more adaptive to changes in their runtime environment via performance assessment, added efficiencies, and enhanced forensics while keeping customer costs to a minimum.”
Through this initiative, ServiceNow Cloud Observability, formerly known as Lightstep, continues to provide enterprises with the ability to ship more data at a lower cost.
“When Lightstep co-founded the OpenTelemetry project, our goal was to work within the open source community to help enterprises maximise visibility without increasing spend,” said Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower, chief architect at ServiceNow Cloud Observability.