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How to export your synthetic monitoring data to your observability stack with OpenStatus

OpenStatus supports exporting your synthetic monitoring data to your observability platform using OpenTelemetry.

When you enable this feature, we will export the results of the synthetic checks as metrics.

You can send your metrics to:

Grafana Cloud Example

OpenStatus X Grafana Public dashboard

How to setup?

To change set up an otlp endpont : Select a monitor → Settings → OTel.

Add your OTLP endpoint and include your headers.

Attributes

  • openstatus.probes -> the region of the probes
  • openstatus.target

Available Metrics

For HTTP probes:

  • openstatus.http.request.duration
  • openstatus.http.dns.duration
  • openstatus.http.connection.duration
  • openstatus.http.tls.duration
  • openstatus.http.ttfb.duration
  • openstatus.http.transfer.duration
  • openstatus.error ( counter fill when error)
  • openstatus.status (counter -> 1 when successful request)

For TCP probes:

  • openstatus.tcp.request.duration