Open-Sourcing Panoptes, Oath’s distributed network telemetry collector

This post announces the open-sourcing of Panoptes, a distributed network telemetry collector. It details the system's architecture, which uses Kafka as a metrics bus, Celery with Redis for scheduling, and supports pluggable discovery systems and time-series datastores like InfluxDB. The post highlights the benefits of consolidating polling solutions, normalizing data, and the flexibility to integrate with legacy datastores and emerging streaming telemetry standards. It also mentions the system's deployment at Oath, handling hundreds of thousands of checks per second and its ease of setup.