This was a pleasant surprise to see on Hacker News this morning! I work on the Observability team at Stripe and have been the PM for Veneur (and the rest of our metrics & tracing pipeline work) pretty much since we released it ~2 years ago.<p>If you're interested in learning more about how Veneur works and why we built it, I gave a talk at Monitorama last year that explains the philosophy behind Veneur[0]. In short, a massive company like Google is able to build their on integrated observability stacks in-house, but almost any other smaller company is going to be relying on an array of open-source tools or third-party vendors for different parts of their observability tooling[1]. When using different tools, there are always going to be gaps between them, which leads to incomplete instrumentation and awkward (inter-)operability. By taking control of the pipeline that processes the data, we're able to provide fully integrated views into different aspects of our observability data.<p>The Monitorama talk is a year old at this point, so it doesn't cover some of the newer things Veneur has helped us to accomplish, but the core philosophy hasn't changed. I've given updated versions of the talk more recently at CraftConf (in May) and DevOpsDaysMSP (last week), but neither of those videos are online yet.<p>[0] <a href="https://vimeo.com/221049715" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/221049715</a><p>[1] e.g. ELK/Papertrail/Splunk for logs, Graphite/Datadog/SignalFx for metrics, and maybe a third tool for tracing if you're lucky.