AppSignal, the provider of actionable application insights for developers, is unveiling native OpenTelemetry (OTel) support for its application performance monitoring (APM) product suite, democratizing OpenTelemetry for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).
Joining existing support for Ruby, Elixir, and Node.js, AppSignal now offers simple pricing and monitoring support for Go, Java, and PHP applications. This ultimately brings developers actionable insights derived from their OTel data, driving improved app monitoring and increased performance without any custom integration work. Capabilities such as simple instrumentation, error tracking, and performance monitoring paired with pre-built visualization dashboards bring organization and actionability to OTel data.
“Current OpenTelemetry tools typically overwhelm developers by dumping raw metrics, logs, and traces with little context. We took a different approach by adopting OTel rather than building proprietary language integrations,” said Wes Oudshoorn, chief product officer, AppSignal. “AppSignal translates OTel data into clear insights, showing developers exactly what is broken or slow without requiring them to piece it together themselves.”
Other capabilities available through AppSignal’s latest integration include:
- Native OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) support for traces, metrics, and logs
- Automatic instrumentation and instant support for Go (Gin, Echo), Java (Spring Boot), and PHP (Laravel, Symfony)
- Zero-configuration OTel collector integration and unified monitoring across all languages, including Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, Go, Java, and PHP
- Language-specific dashboards optimized for each runtime's unique metrics
- Seamless migration paths from proprietary AppSignal agents to OTel instrumentation
- Smart sampling that captures 100% of errors and triggers anomaly detection while managing data volume
- Zero vendor lock-in, meaning OTel instrumentation works with any compatible platform
“We are excited to welcome new programming communities to AppSignal and deliver the experience they expect from a modern observability platform,” continued Oudshoorn.
To learn more, please visit https://www.appsignal.com/.