Show HN: Dev-friendly native OTel: only OSS stateful, on-the-wire Observability

Category: observability

Tags: observability, opentelemetry, kubernetes, telemetry-pipeline, go

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 6, Utility: 7)

Octant is a telemetry control plane for Kubernetes that acts as an OpenTelemetry-native gateway, enabling stateful filtering, on-the-wire alerting, and PII redaction before data reaches SaaS vendors. It offers a visual interface for managing OTel pipelines and K8s objects, aiming to reduce observability costs and improve signal quality. The project combines OTel, Kubernetes, and real-time stream processing in an innovative way.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, platform engineers

Repository: https://github.com/MyDecisive/octant · Go · AGPL-3.0

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