Ingest OTEL Logs with Grafana Alloy & Parseable
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Logs are critical components of an application. They help maintain system reliability, performance and most of the time also help understand user behaviors, uncover patterns in customer actions and much more. Problem however in managing logs is manifold - missing structure, ad-hoc formats and the sheer volumes making it difficult to manage and analyze.
OpenTelemetry (aka OTEL) is a community initiative to help standardize collection, querying and visualization of logs, traces and metrics. With a well defined standard for logs, users can choose the log processing system that best fits their needs.