3 The Shipping stage: Moving and storing telemetry

This chapter covers

  • The role of the shipping stage in a telemetry pipeline
  • The emitter/shipper function in production code
  • Ways of moving telemetry through the Shipping stage

The Shipping stage in a telemetry pipeline is the second stage of the pipeline, as shown in figure 3.1. The Shipping stage receives telemetry from the Emitting stage, optionally marks up and enriches it (see chapter 6), and stores it for use in the Presentation stage. When the Emitting stage is entirely within your production code, the Shipping stage can be combined directly with the Emitting stage to make an emitter/shipper, or the Shipping stage might be a whole multisystem infrastructure handling the telemetry needs ...

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