There's a lot ofbad telemetryout there.
OllyGarden helps you cut through the noise. We provide actionable insights to identify and eliminate ineffective OpenTelemetry data, so you can finally get the clarity you need to cultivate healthier systems and reduce waste.
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Why Is Judging Telemetry Quality So Hard?
Without a standard measure, assessing and improving telemetry quality is difficult, inconsistent, and often neglected until problems become critical.
Subjective Assessment
How do you really know if your OpenTelemetry instrumentation is effective? Different teams, different opinions, no common benchmark.
Hidden Issues
Missing critical attributes, inefficient signal use, or incomplete traces often go unnoticed until it's too late, leading to higher costs and slower incident response.
No Standard Measure
The OpenTelemetry ecosystem has lacked a standardized way to objectively measure instrumentation quality. This makes true improvement and benchmarking a guessing game.
The result? Teams struggle with "good enough" instrumentation that costs more, reveals less, and makes troubleshooting harder than it should be.
It's Time to Fix It. Meet OllyGarden Insights.
OllyGarden Insights analyzes your existing OTLP data, pinpointing 'bad telemetry'—the noise, the inefficiencies, the missing context—and provides a clear view of your instrumentation quality with actionable recommendations.
All without needing to change your backend.
Identify the Noise
Instantly see where your telemetry is excessive, redundant, or lacks value. Pinpoint over-instrumented services and noisy traces.
Fix Incompleteness
Discover missing critical attributes (like `service.name`), broken traces, and deviations from semantic conventions.
Optimize for Efficiency
Get recommendations to reduce data volume, convert logs to metrics where appropriate, and lower overall processing costs.
Benchmark & Improve
Understand how your services stack up and follow clear guidance to elevate your instrumentation to best-practice standards.
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From Score to Action: Detailed Insights
Your Instrumentation Score is a composite reflection of adherence to best practices, revealing specific areas for targeted improvement.
Instrumentation Quality Breakdown
See exactly which rules impacted your score – positive or negative. Understand missing attributes, semantic convention adherence, and trace completeness.
Efficiency & Optimization Opportunities
Identify score-impacting inefficiencies that also drive up costs. Detect overly verbose traces and high-cardinality metrics.
Service & Pipeline Benchmarking
Compare Instrumentation Scores across your services to prioritize efforts. Focus improvements where they'll have the biggest impact.
Actionable Recommendations
Get clear, prioritized guidance to improve your score and overall telemetry health with specific implementation steps.
Sample Insights details
Quantify Your Quality:
The Instrumentation Score
OllyGarden Insights leverages the Instrumentation Score specification—an open, rule-based system designed to objectively assess your OpenTelemetry data (OTLP). We provide a numerical score from 0 (Poor) to 100 (Excellent), giving you an unprecedented understanding of your telemetry's effectiveness.
The Future of Telemetry Assessment
OllyGarden created the Instrumentation Score as an open-source effort. By using our Insights service, you're an early adopter of this next-generation approach to telemetry quality. Our service analyzes your data, calculates your score based on rules derived from OTel Semantic Conventions and best practices, and provides detailed reports on why you received that score and how to improve it.
Excellent
90-100
Best-in-class instrumentation with comprehensive coverage and optimal practices.
Good
75-89
Solid foundation with good practices, some areas for optimization.
Needs Improvement
50-74
Significant gaps in coverage or practices that need addressing.
Poor
0-49
Critical issues requiring immediate attention and major improvements.
Secure & Focused Analysis
Our service securely streams and analyzes your OpenTelemetry data (OTLP). Your data is processed, scored, and then discarded—we never store your telemetry long-term.
The OllyGarden Advantage
We're not just another observability vendor. We're OpenTelemetry natives committed to your success and the open-source ecosystem that powers modern observability.
OpenTelemetry Natives
We are active OpenTelemetry creators and contributors. We understand OTel deeply, providing tailored insights for OTel users.
Actionable Insights, Not Just Data
Go beyond raw data. We identify 'bad telemetry' and offer concrete steps to improve your instrumentation's quality and efficiency.
Vendor-Neutral Approach
Our goal is to optimize your telemetry, regardless of your chosen backend vendor. We help you send better data everywhere.
Commitment to Open Source
We believe in the power of open source. We contribute to the OpenTelemetry project daily, and we created the Instrumentation Score in the open, gathering a healthy community from day one.
Trusted by Experts, Built for You
OllyGarden is backed by deep expertise and is recognized within the observability community, with strong roots in OpenTelemetry.
Meet the Founders
Led by Juraci and Yuri, recognized creators and contributors to the OpenTelemetry project. Our deep understanding of OTel comes from building it.
Proudly backed by industry leaders
Guided by pioneers in observability.
A Clearer View for Everyone: The Value of Scoring
The Instrumentation Score provides a common language and clear metrics for everyone involved in observability, from engineers to executives. It's time to get on the same page.
For Observability Engineers and SREs
Objectively demonstrate the quality of your instrumentation. Use your score to advocate for improvements, track progress, and reduce the noise that leads to alert fatigue.
Key Benefits:
- Quantify instrumentation quality with hard numbers
- Identify specific technical debt in your telemetry
- Justify time spent on observability improvements
- Reduce false positives and alert noise
For Software Development Teams
Get clear, quantifiable feedback on your service's instrumentation health. Understand how to improve your score and contribute to a more efficient and robust system.
Key Benefits:
- Service-specific instrumentation scorecards
- Clear action items for developers
- Track improvements over time
For CTOs and Engineering Managers
Gain a standardized metric to benchmark observability maturity across teams. Tie instrumentation quality directly to efficiency gains and reduced operational risk.
Key Benefits:
- Executive dashboards with organization-wide scores
- Team performance benchmarking
- Risk assessment and mitigation planning
For the open source community
By adopting OllyGarden Insights, you support the development and refinement of a much-needed open standard for instrumentation quality. Help us cultivate a better future for observability.
Key Benefits:
- Contribute to open source scoring standards
- Help establish community best practices
- Advance the state of observability tooling
- Participate in the future of telemetry quality
One Score, Universal Understanding
Whether you're debugging a production issue, planning infrastructure costs, or reporting to stakeholders, the Instrumentation Score provides a common reference point that everyone can understand and act upon.
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