Ingest telemetry data

Before you can use Chronosphere Observability Platform to view and manage your telemetry data (of whatever type), you need to get that data into Observability Platform.

Observability Platform supports multiple methods to ingest telemetry data, which depend on which type of data you want to ingest:

Ingestion method	Change events	Logs	Metrics	Traces
Chronosphere Collector
OpenTelemetry Collector
Telemetry Pipeline or Core Agent
Existing pipeline
Direct to Observability Platform

After ingesting telemetry data, you can use the control mechanisms that Observability Platform provides to control costs and ensure you’re ingesting only the data you care about.

Ingestion models

Chronosphere utilizes push and pull models of ingestion, depending on the data collected and the method of ingestion.

Telemetry type	Push	Pull
Metrics
Traces
Logs

Pull models, like the Chronosphere Collector, scrape telemetry data from external sources and pull it in. These metrics have consistent reporting intervals.

Push models, like tracing, send telemetry data to Chronosphere, which is then processed. These metrics can have a broad spectrum of reporting frequency, from large bursts of data to long periods with no data reporting.

The ingestion model depends on the telemetry data source. Metrics pushed to Observability Platform can have latency delays or sparse time series which can result in unexpected query results.