6 Frontend destinations
This chapter covers
- What frontend destinations are and what options exist
- What all-in-one destinations are and available options
- How to go about selecting frontends and all-in-ones
In chapter 5, we had a look at observability backends. Essentially, these are specialized time series databases (TSDBs), general-purpose relational databases with a TSDB extension, or columnar data stores that are able to store logs, metrics, and traces. Once you have ingested the signals in a backend, you can use the backend to answer observability questions, usually referred to as querying. This process might be a declarative one, such as is the case with SQL or PromQL, or an imperative one, where you, for instance, tell a traces backend ...
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