Amsterdam-based Fiberplane, a startup that builds collaborative notebooks for developers and DevOps teams to debug their infrastructure, announced on Thursday the launch of Autometrics, a set of open-source libraries that provide programmers access to metrics, a powerful but underutilised tool in the observability stack.
Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, founder of Fiberplane, says, “Metrics are underused today relative to their power and cost-effective because they have a developer experience problem.”
“To make use of metrics, developers need to think about what to track, how to track it, how to query the data once they have it, and how to operationalise the data with alerts and dashboards.”
“Fiberplane’s new Autometrics addresses many of these developer experience problems, ultimately making it easier for them to understand how their code is performing in production.”
Observability in code
Although most observability technologies need complicated settings defined in YAML, which actually makes this task much harder for developers, observability helps developers understand how their systems are operating.
Currently, few people are employing metrics in their production settings, despite the fact that doing so might be advantageous.
With Fiberplane’s Autometrics, developers may better understand production systems by integrating the data into their preferred Integrated Development Environments (IDEs).
Autometrics and metrics linked to specific functions make it simple to transition from code to production data since developers’ mental models of their systems are centred on their code, says Fiberplane.
Additionally, Autometrics makes sure that when developers query their data, they can be sure they are viewing the correct data.
In addition to offering a more developer-focused approach and a new dashboard that gives an overview of the system’s live status, Autometrics uses well-known initiatives like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
Other benefits include:
- Enables developers to easily monitor any function’s error rate, response time, and latency
- Writes (PromQL) queries automatically for developers so they don’t have to manually construct complex queries to comprehend the data generated
- Provides links to the live charts in the comments of each function’s page so that programmers may hop from reading their code, where they are most at ease, to viewing the function’s real-time data
- Enables developers to create relevant alerts more quickly using best practices for Service-Level Objectives (SLOs)
Enhancing collaboration
Founded in 2020 by Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, Fiberplane changes how DevOps engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) work together to resolve outages plus downtime.
The company offers collaborative investigation and documentation tools with real data, all hosted within a technical open-source notebook format.
Just like Google Docs, anyone can participate, edit in the notebook, and can also see actions taken based on the data.
In September 2021, Fiberplane secured €7.5M in a Seed round. The funding was co-led by Crane Venture Partners and Notion Capital, with participation from Northzone, System.One and Basecase Capital.
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