Panoptes Network Telemetry Collector

Panoptes is a distributed system for collecting, enriching, and distributing network telemetry. It supports multiple polling formats (SNMP, vendor APIs, gNMI), uses Kafka as a metrics bus, Celery with Redis for scheduling, and integrates with InfluxDB for time-series storage. This post details the open-sourcing of Panoptes, a system designed to consolidate polling solutions, normalize data, and provide flexibility for evolving telemetry standards. It currently handles hundreds of thousands of checks per second and has been tested to over one million checks per second.