Chapter 13, Telemetry Capture and Integration

1. Sometimes, the platform used to capture telemetry is not at the developer’s discretion, and another means of capturing and analyzing the information will be used. Common examples include the ELK stack and Splunk. Teams may also want tooling that is independent of a particular cloud but common across a specific cloud service, such as Kubernetes.
2. The Activity type is generally used during the course of method execution to capture information often found useful for tracing, while Meter objects are generally about capturing an occurrence or other frequencies over time related to actions within the code. How the information is measured is one of the primary drivers, along with the implementation model.
3. Yes, each of those examples listed will factor into the overall design and usage of any telemetry capture platform. Depending on what is chosen, the cost can vary from data storage to transactions processed to individual licenses...