STACKIT Observability provides a managed telemetry stack for enterprise monitoring.
Service Overview
Section titled “Service Overview”- Unified Telemetry Stack: Integrated Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Thanos, and Grafana in a single managed service.
- Long-Term Retention: Metrics retention up to 26 months powered by Thanos backend storage.
- Open Standards: Fully compatible with OpenTelemetry (OTLP) collectors and OpenMetrics endpoints.
Technical Details
Section titled “Technical Details”- Alerting: Integrated Alertmanager supporting email and webhook notifications (Slack, PagerDuty).
- Security: Endpoint security guarded via IPv4 CIDR allowlists and TLS transport encryption.
Retention
Section titled “Retention”The values below come from the STACKIT documentation and update themselves.
From the STACKIT docsService plans of STACKIT Observability › Retention and data formats
STACKIT Observability uses open standards for telemetry collection.
All metrics, logs and traces must be transmitted in OpenTelemetry or OpenMetrics format.
Metrics
- Default retention: 90 days
- Configurable up to 780 days (26 months)
- Retention can be changed in the Observability Service Dashboard or via the Observability API
Logs and Traces
- Default retention: 5 days
- Configurable up to 30 days
- Retention can be adjusted via the Observability API
What is this?
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Limitations & Constraints
Section titled “Limitations & Constraints”- Managed Grafana Plugins: Installing unverified custom third-party Grafana plugins is unsupported.
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