The Themes
1. The most commonly adopted tools are open source.
The three tools that received the most “Adopt” votes (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic) and the five tools that received the most total votes (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry) are all open source. Show More
2. There’s no consolidation in the observability space.
Many companies are using multiple tools: Half of the companies are using 5 or more tools, and a third of them had experience with 10+ tools. Show More
3. Prometheus and Grafana are frequently used together.
Two-thirds of the respondents are using these two tools in conjunction. This comes as no surprise, but the high correlation is still interesting to note. Momentum behind both projects, coupled with little competition, could have helped them gain such a high rate of adoption. Plus, there are many tutorials and installers that make it easy to use them together. There’s minimal resistance to using them hand-in-hand.
The End User companies
The Radar Team
Jon Moter
Jon works in the Foundation Engineering organization, which provides compute, storage, and cloud infrastructure to the rest of Zendesk engineering.
Kunal Parmar
Kunal leads Box's cloud native team, driving the adoption of Kubernetes, service mesh, and observability.
The data
The CNCF End User Community was asked to describe what their companies recommend for different solutions: Adopt, Trial, Assess or Hold. This table shows how the End User companies rated each technology.
The industries
| Software | 7 |
| E-commerce | 4 |
| Financial Services | 4 |
| Entertainment | 2 |
| File Sharing | 1 |
