Metrics are an essential part of observing any service; without them you'll have significant blind spots. But collecting and analyzing them can be a real challenge -- especially at scale. Not only do you need to solve the basic task of collecting your metrics, but you must do it in a reliable, performant, and robust manner. Nothing is more frustrating than having your metrics pipeline fall on it's face during an outage, or even worse, cause the outage!
Fear not! In this guide we'll build an observability pipeline that will send metrics to Sematext.
Background
What is Sematext?
Sematext is a hosted monitoring platform based on Elasticsearch. Providing powerful monitoring and management solutions to monitor and observe your apps in real-time.
Strategy
How This Guide Works
We'll be using [Vector][urls.vector_website] to accomplish this task. Vector is a popular open-source observability data pipeline. It's written in Rust, making it lightweight, ultra-fast and highly reliable. And we'll be deploying Vector as a agent.
What We'll Accomplish
We'll build an observability data pipeline that:
All in just a few minutes!
Tutorial
Install Vector
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.vector.dev | shConfigure Vector
noneStart Vector
vector --config ./vector.tomlObserve Vector
vector topexplain this command
Next Steps
Vector is powerful tool and we're just scratching the surface in this guide. Here are a few pages we recommend that demonstrate the power and flexibility of Vector:
[urls.vector_website]: