5 The Presentation stage: Displaying telemetry

This chapter covers

  • The function of the Presentation stage
  • How to aggregate and display metrics data
  • Features needed in centralized logging and security systems
  • How correlation drives distributed tracing

The Presentation stage is the last stage of the telemetry pipeline and the one that most people in the technical organization (and outside it) use to interact with telemetry. For telemetry SaaS companies, the Presentation stage is what sells their products. This chapter teaches how telemetry is presented in each of the four telemetry system styles covered in previous chapters:

  • Section 5.1 covers metrics systems and how charts and aggregations are produced.

  • Section 5.2 covers centralized logging ...

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