From 5e1592274c122b58e78ba4def43e23ffb29ae7a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pranay Prateek Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 12:31:14 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] updated motivation and intro --- README.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 68c810b99e..dfb614bd89 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ## -SigNoz is an opensource observability platform. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your systems and powers data using [Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/) (to handle high ingestion rate and backpressure) and [Apache Druid](https://druid.apache.org/) (Apache Druid is a high performance real-time analytics database), both proven in the industry to handle scale. +SigNoz helps developer monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. You can see metrics like p99 latency, error rates for your services and individual end points and metrics for external API calls. To debug the root cause of the problem, you can see the exact traces which are causing the problem and see detailed flamegraphs of individual request traces. @@ -27,11 +27,24 @@ SigNoz is an opensource observability platform. SigNoz uses distributed tracing ### Motivation: -- SaaS vendors charge an insane amount to provide Application Monitoring. They often surprise you with huge month end bills without any transparency of data sent to them. -- Data privacy and compliance demands data to not leave the network boundary -- Highly scalable architecture -- No more magic happening in agents installed in your infra. You take control of sampling, uptime, configuration. -- Build modules over SigNoz to extend business specific capabilities +Being developers, we found it annoying to rely on closed source SaaS vendors for every small feature we wanted. Closed source vendors often surprise you with huge month end bills without any transparency. + +We wanted to make a self-hosted & open source version of tools like DataDog, NewRelic for companies that have privacy and security concerns about having customer data going to third party services. + +With modern cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, hosting within your cloud is now much easier. And you won't need to send petabytes of your observability data to your SaaS vendors. + +Being open source also gives you complete control of your configuration, sampling, uptimes. You can also build modules over SigNoz to extend business specific capabilities + +### Languages supported: + +We support [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io) as the library which you can use to instrument your applications. So any framework and language supported by OpenTelemetry is also supported by SigNoz. Some of the main supported languages are: + +- Java +- Python +- NodeJS +- Go + +You can find the complete list of languages here - https://opentelemetry.io/docs/ # Getting Started From 673d65db40e547c51f7362c849323c75b71c33ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pranay Prateek Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 12:39:55 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] updated intro --- README.md | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dfb614bd89..9b6ff31c88 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,13 +8,17 @@ ## -SigNoz helps developer monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. You can see metrics like p99 latency, error rates for your services and individual end points and metrics for external API calls. To debug the root cause of the problem, you can see the exact traces which are causing the problem and see detailed flamegraphs of individual request traces. +SigNoz helps developer monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. + +👉 You can see metrics like p99 latency, error rates for your services, external API calls and individual end points. + +👉 You can find the root cause of the problem by going to the exact traces which are causing the problem and see detailed flamegraphs of individual request traces. ![SigNoz Feature](https://res.cloudinary.com/dcv3epinx/image/upload/v1618904032/signoz-images/screenzy-1618904013729_clssvy.png) -### Features: +### 👇 Features: - Application overview metrics like RPS, 50th/90th/99th Percentile latencies, and Error Rate - Slowest endpoints in your application @@ -25,7 +29,7 @@ SigNoz helps developer monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their d - In-built workflows to reduce your efforts in detecting common issues like new deployment failures, 3rd party slow APIs, etc (Coming Soon) - Anomaly Detection Framework (Coming Soon) -### Motivation: +### 🤓 Why SigNoz? Being developers, we found it annoying to rely on closed source SaaS vendors for every small feature we wanted. Closed source vendors often surprise you with huge month end bills without any transparency. @@ -35,7 +39,7 @@ With modern cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, hosting within your cloud Being open source also gives you complete control of your configuration, sampling, uptimes. You can also build modules over SigNoz to extend business specific capabilities -### Languages supported: +### 👊🏻 Languages supported: We support [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io) as the library which you can use to instrument your applications. So any framework and language supported by OpenTelemetry is also supported by SigNoz. Some of the main supported languages are: From 9936b3ab46be713c3b14e0cc49f60a21f4d39402 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pranay Prateek Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 12:41:52 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] updated motivation section --- README.md | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9b6ff31c88..e90276e0b4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ Being developers, we found it annoying to rely on closed source SaaS vendors for We wanted to make a self-hosted & open source version of tools like DataDog, NewRelic for companies that have privacy and security concerns about having customer data going to third party services. -With modern cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, hosting within your cloud is now much easier. And you won't need to send petabytes of your observability data to your SaaS vendors. - Being open source also gives you complete control of your configuration, sampling, uptimes. You can also build modules over SigNoz to extend business specific capabilities ### 👊🏻 Languages supported: