Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline
Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline collects, transforms, enriches, reduces, and routes telemetry for observability and security teams.
What Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline is
Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline collects, transforms, enriches, reduces, and routes telemetry for observability and security teams. It handles logs, metrics, events, and traces, though its processing rules are more mature for logs. Teams can configure pipelines with a drag-and-drop low-code or no-code builder, test configurations in a Playground, and optionally use a CLI. The product includes more than 25 built-in processing rules and supports custom parsing and processing rules created with AI natural language. Chronosphere lists over 70 source and destination integrations, including Fluent Bit, Datadog, Splunk, Amazon S3, and Azure Event Grid. Its default setup keeps the data plane in the customer’s environment and the management plane with Chronosphere; it requires an outbound connection to management and no inbound network connections. Chronosphere says it has no access to data processed in the customer environment. A SaaS interface can manage Fluent Bit configurations, monitor agent health, and roll out updates. The Kubernetes-native pipeline supports automatic healing, retries, high availability, and load balancing. Pricing is on request and based on raw data throughput. A free trial is available, with no duration stated.
Good
- Supports logs, metrics, events, and traces.
- Offers more than 25 built-in processing rules.
- Includes a drag-and-drop pipeline builder and Playground.
- Data plane runs in the customer environment by default.
- Free trial is available.
Watch out
- Pricing is on request and based on raw data throughput.
- Processing rules are more mature for logs.
Who it suits
The product is aimed at observability and security teams managing telemetry costs and complexity. It may suit teams that want to process telemetry in their own environment and route it to multiple destinations.
Verdict
Telemetry Pipeline brings collection, processing, and routing into a configurable system, with broad telemetry support and a default customer-side data plane. Teams should note that pricing is customized and that processing capabilities are most mature for logs.
Plans and prices
From Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Custom pricing | Priced on request | Based solely on raw data throughput; price is tailored to each team |
The facts
Each one read from Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- Chronosphere describes the product as serving observability and security teams managing telemetry data costs and complexity.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Availability features
- The Kubernetes-native pipeline supports automatic healing, retries, high availability, and load balancing.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Data access
- Chronosphere says the data plane processes data in the customer environment and that Chronosphere has no access to the underlying data.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Data types
- It supports logs, metrics, events, and traces, with more mature processing rules for logs.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Deployment
- The default deployment is hybrid or bring-your-own-cloud: the data plane runs in the customer environment and Chronosphere hosts the management plane.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Fluent Bit fleet management
- A SaaS interface can manage Fluent Bit configurations, monitor agent health, and roll out updates across an environment.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Integrations
- Chronosphere states that Telemetry Pipeline supports over 70 integrations, including Fluent Bit, Datadog, Splunk, CrowdStrike, Amazon S3, and Azure Event Grid.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Pipeline builder
- Users can configure pipelines with a low-code/no-code drag-and-drop builder, test them in a Playground, or use a CLI.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Pricing model
- Pricing is based solely on data throughput, defined as the volume of raw data transmitted through the pipeline; the page does not list a price.checked 3 Oct 2001
- Processing
- It offers more than 25 out-of-the-box processing rules to transform, enrich, reduce, and secure data in flight.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Purpose
- Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline collects, aggregates, transforms, and routes telemetry data from sources to destinations.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Security
- Chronosphere says the product is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 examined and can redact sensitive information before logs leave the environment.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Sources and destinations
- The product accepts sources such as Fluent Bit, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, Telegraf, and Splunk HEC, and routes to destinations including Datadog, Splunk, Amazon S3, Azure Blob, ClickHouse, and Kafka.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Support
- Chronosphere describes customer support as including dedicated customer success resources and 24/7, year-round communications through Slack, Zendesk, or email.checked 4 Oct 2001
- Telemetry support
- Telemetry Pipeline supports logs, metrics, events, and traces, with more mature processing rules for logs.checked 3 Oct 2001
The company
- Company history
- Chronosphere formally launched in November 2019, according to its launch announcement datelined New York City.checked 3 Oct 2001
- Founded
- 2019checked 28 Sep 2001
- Headquarters
- New York, New York, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2001
Money
- Cost reduction
- Chronosphere says the product can reduce log data costs by at least 30%.checked 3 Oct 2001
- Trial
- A Chronosphere blog invites readers to sign up for a free Telemetry Pipeline trial; it does not state the trial duration.checked 3 Oct 2001
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