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

Section titled “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:

OpenStatus X Grafana Public dashboard

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

Add your OTLP endpoint and include your headers.

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

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