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Overview

IT organizations often leverage centralized tools to monitor their systems. Typically, these centralized tools enable IT groups to do the following:

• Avoid reliance on the tool to monitor itself.

• Observe reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to manage the monitoring, alerts, and notification system in one place.

• Manage the history by the retention of the data for audits.

The SnapLogic® Third-party Observability (Public Preview) feature offers the capability to integrate pipeline runtime logs with your third-party monitoring tools. This feature enables your IT organization to track, troubleshoot, analyze, and optimize your integrations in production environments.

The SnapLogic platform uses OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to support telemetry data integration with third-party observability tools. This public preview feature release includes the implementation of the service to enable you to monitor your pipeline execution runtime logs in Datadog and New Relic.

Certified Third-Party Observability Tools

• Datadog

• New Relic

Prerequisites

• Groundplexes are installed and set up.

• The Open Telemetry feature subscription must be enabled for your Org/Environment

Implement OTEL Services

OpenTelemetry is an open-source, vendor-agnostic observability framework and toolkit designed to create and manage OpenTelemetry data. For the SnapLogic application, you can capture metrics and logs. OTEL reporting sends messages of Error severity levels to your connected 3rd-party monitoring tools. Messages of all severity levels are retained in the logs.

How OpenTelemetry Works

The OpenTelemetry Collector receives, processes, and exports OpenTelemetry data. When you deploy the OpenTelemetry service, the Collector retrieves the data from the JCC node logs and routes them to your third-party monitoring tool using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP).

The following three components comprise the OpenTelemetry Collector:

• Receiver - Defines how the logs are sent to the OpenTelemetry Collector.

• Processor - Defines the method of log retrieval. In most cases, batch mode is preferred.

• Exporter - Specifies the third-party tool.

The diagram below provides shows the architecture of the OpenTelemetry service that is implemented in the SnapLogic Platform.

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This document describes only the retrieval of logs sent in and supported by the OpenTelemetry format, not the original log format from the Groundplex JCC node. Support for capturing the log data directly from the Groundplex JCC node is on the product roadmap.

Workflow

1. Set up the OpenTelemetry Service.

2. Run your pipelines.

3. Observe pipeline runtime data in the monitoring tool.

Datadog Monitoring Tools Support Workflow

1. Install the OpenTelemetry package.

2. Configure the OpenTelemetry service.

3. Deploy the OpenTelemetry service.

This page describes how to perform those steps to monitor Groundplexes deployed on Windows, Linux, or Docker. Refer to Deploy OTEL as a Daemonset for Groundplexes running on Kubernetes.

Install the OpenTelemetry Package

1. Download the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib package.

2. Save the package on the same JCC node of the machine that hosts the Groundplex.

Configure the OpenTelemetry Services

1. Create the YAML configuration file.
   You can use the following template:

2. Specify the gRPC URL in the YAML template. This is in the environment variable in your host machine.

3. For batch-mode processing of the logs, define the following values for the processors.

   • send_batch_max_size: 100

   • send_batch_size: 10

   • timeout: 10s

4. For exporters, add the values for your Datadog API:

   • site: "http://datadoghq.com "

   • key: ${env:DD_API_KEY}

The following is an example of a YAML configuration file:

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Deploy the OpenTelemetry Service

1. From the JCC node with the OpenTelemetry package, you can deploy on any Groundplexes running the following:

   • Linux

   • Microsoft Windows

   • Docker container

2. (Optional) To run the service on a separate Docker container, run the following Docker commands (where $DD_API_KEY is the Datadog API key environment variable).

3. Test the OpenTelemetry Service by running some pipelines on the target Groundplexes, then check your monitoring tool for the runtime data.

Access Additional Metrics

In the November release, a metrics collection has become available to the OpenTelemetry service. These metrics can be transmitted to your monitoring tool by uncommenting the following lines in the YAML template:

To choose which metrics to use for reporting, filter by regex, as shown in the YAML setting below:

Refer to the Metrics Reference for definitions of each metric.

Monitor Logs in Datadog

You should start seeing logs after OpenTelemetry Collector is started. When you run a pipeline, the details are captured in the pipeline runtimes.

Notice that some log files are generated with the runtime.

In the Datadog UI, we can observe the log files immediately.

Click the log file to open up a details pane with real-time information.

New Relic Platform Observability Support Workflow

The SnapLogic application supports integrations with the New Relic platform. You can stream pipeline runtime logs to a New Relic endpoint to track execution status and details. After implementing the OTEL Collector, you can use a YAML file to implement the service.

All pipeline runtime Logs in New Relic with 100 ms replication lag or less are observable.

Step 1: Install the OpenTelemetry Package

1. Download the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib package.

2. Save the package on the same JCC node of the machine that hosts the Groundplex.

Step 2: Prepare the YAML File

Download the YAML file, shown below.

Set up the Connection to New Relic

1. Set up the OTEL Collector, using the steps in Step 1: Install the OpenTelemetry package.
   If you already have the OTEL Collector set up, go to the next step.

2. Either create an account in the New Relic application, or if you already have an account, continue with the next step.

3. Copy the API key from the Administration > API keys page in the New Relic UI.

    

4. Save the YAML file to the following location: /etc/otelcol

5. Add the API key to the YAML file under headers:

    

6. Apply changes to the YAML file and restart the Open Telemetry service.

Monitor Runtime Logs in New Relic

Run some tasks or pipelines on the target Snaplex, and you can observe the summary of pipeline execution logs in the New Relic UI, as shown in the example image:

Click each log to open a view of the Log Details, as shown below:

Metrics Reference