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Overview

Traditional approaches to observability, operations, and business intelligence treat these concerns as separate and distinct. This often results in several, different technology stacks, often dramatically increasing the demand and requirements of your on-call staff.

Cognative deploys a turn-key solution that centralizes log, metric, trace, and wide-event data into a common store and exposes them for analysis behind a single pane of glass. Traditional approaches often require engineering effort to centralize data from numerous, distinct sources into a common location. This results in toil and requires further maintenance as the organization grows. Cognative removes this toil by centralizing the data FIRST.

Benefits

Easily deploy a preconfigured instance of the stack that connects all relevant services.
Access and analyze all your organizations business data, in a single location.
Configure tiered storage (hot, warm, and cold) for all your logs, metrics, traces, and wide events ONCE.
Less overhead for operators and developers alike, simplifying the development and testing processes.

Still not convinced?

Give Cognative a try by following one of our Getting Started guides.
See our documentation on alternatives for more information.

Technologies

Cognative is a portmanteau that uses an acronym of the technologies involved (listed below) and the suffix "native" from the "cloud native" space, meaning "of indigenous origin".

	[_ClickHouse_][clickhouse] is our data warehouse layer. It stores logs, metrics, traces, as well as other business related data sets. ClickHouse also comes with tons of integrations which makes it easy to source data from a variety of locations. [clickhouse]: https://clickhouse.com/
	[_OpenTelemetry_][open telemetry] provides instrumentation for our ecosystem. Information is collected from a variety of sources using vendor neutral solutions. The community also supports a large number of languages, making it easy to add to many systems today. [open telemetry]: https://opentelemetry.io/
	[_Grafana_][grafana] provides our data exploration, visualization, and alerting layer. It can easily integrate with on-call solutions like PagerDuty, OpsGenie, BetterStack, and many more. [grafana]: https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/

Cognative provides a base layer that your company can build on top of. Want to add a queue before your data hits the warehouse? Feel free to add which ever queuing technology your organization prefers.

Why not just use these systems directly?

While you could deploy each of these systems independently, they require a significant amount of expertise and knowledge of how the underlying systems work to get things connected properly. Our deployment takes care of a bulk of this heavy lifting for you by automatically tapping sources for information. For example, our Helm chart deploys a cluster agent which pulls metrics and information from the Kubernetes control plane. Our node agent automatically ships logs and pulls metrics from the Kubelet agent running on each host.

To get a better idea of what comes with the Cognative system, take a look at our architecture documentation. It illustrates both on-prem style deployments and how you may leverage cloud services (such as Grafana Cloud, ClickHouse Cloud, or Altinity) in place of running the systems yourself.

License

Copyright (C) 2024 The cognative authors

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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