OTel Assessment
OpenTelemetry Maturity Assessment
A bounded assessment of your OTel instrumentation, collector topology, and backend alignment — with a prioritised adoption and remediation plan.
Vendor-neutral Collector-aware
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OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
Technology specialist services
OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
For organisations adopting OpenTelemetry as the vendor-neutral instrumentation and collector standard — traces, metrics, logs — with choice of backend (Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, Datadog, etc.). Best when buyers want portability, avoid agent sprawl, or are building an observability pipeline control plane.
Who this is for
These are some of the reasons organisations look for specialist services here.
- Vendor-neutral instrumentation and collectors are the strategy
- Traces, metrics, and logs should stay portable across backends
- You are reducing agent sprawl while modernising observability pipelines
- Standards, sampling, and governance matter before backend commitment
GKC service offerings for OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
Bounded specialist engagements grounded in your environment — scoped for practical outputs and a clear next step.
OTel Architecture
OTel Architecture & Reference Pipeline Design
Scoped OTel architecture and reference pipeline design: instrumentation layers, collector topology, sampling and security patterns, and exporter alignment to agreed backends.
Reference pipeline Sampling design
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OTel Implementation
OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Implementation
Scoped implementation of OpenTelemetry for agreed applications or platforms: SDK/auto-instrumentation, collector handoff, validation, and developer handover.
Priority services first Standards-based
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Collector Hardening
Collector Deployment & Hardening
Bounded collector deployment and hardening: HA patterns, gateway and agent tiers, tail sampling, observability of collectors, and handover runbooks for platform owners.
HA collectors Tail sampling
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Pipeline Optimisation
Pipeline Optimisation (Cardinality, Cost, Quality)
Scoped OTel pipeline optimisation: processor chains, attribute governance, sampling adjustments, and drop rules with stakeholder sign-off — measured against agreed cost and quality targets.
Cardinality control Processor governance
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