How are RED metrics calculated in SigNoz?

SigNoz Tech Office Hours

Welcome to SigNoz office hours! In this series, one of our team members gives a presentation about a topic of their choice. This talk is presented by Srikanth Chekuri, backend engineer at SigNoz. He talks about the following:

• How are RED metrics calculated in SigNoz?
• The case of missing spans
• Showing real-time metrics in service dependency graph

More about SigNoz:

SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator.

SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

SigNoz website - https://signoz.io

SigNoz Github repository - https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

You can find the official documentation here - https://signoz.io/docs/.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Agenda

03:26 What is a service?

13:34 Anamolies due to missing spans

23:44 Leveraging ClickHouse Capabilities

32:12 Calculation of metrics for service dependency graph