4 The Shipping stage: Unifying diverse telemetry formats

This chapter covers

  • Shipping locally emitted telemetry
  • Interacting with emitting stages with flexible and inflexible formats
  • Picking formats for shipping telemetry

This chapter is the second chapter covering the Shipping stage. Whereas chapter 3 covered moving telemetry around and preparing it for storage, this chapter covers the format (and format transformations) of telemetry data in the Shipping stage. A lot happens in the Shipping stage, which is why this stage is taking me a few chapters to describe:

  • Telemetry moves around (chapter 3). In larger systems, moving telemetry around can be quite complex, involving telemetry systems owned and controlled by different teams (multitenancy; ...

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