OpenTelemetry made simple

Unsure who’s using your APIs and how? Wasting resources on lengthy troubleshooting processes? Cut through the complexity and harness the power of OpenTelemetry with Tyk. Enhance your API monitoring with end-to-end distributed tracing for faster troubleshooting and deeper insights.

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Seamless observability, in your hands

  • Powerful insights see further and deeper into your systems than ever before
  • Understand dependencies, pinpoint issues and optimize performance
  • Easily configure OTel in Tyk Gateway and integrate with other systems and tools
  • Customize traces to meet your monitoring needs
  • Identify innovation opportunities with next-level understanding of API usage

Handle all protocols

REST, GraphQL and event-driven async APIs all have their own observability requirements. Tyk’s support for OpenTelemetry means you can create traces that work for your particular needs, molding around your existing architecture.

Powerful flexibility

We’ve built in plenty of flexibility when it comes to logging, so you can obfuscate logs to avoid storing personally identifiable information (PII). After all, why deal with more compliance requirements than you need to?

Real-time alerts

Easily connect Tyk to your alerting systems to trigger emails, Slack messages and more as soon as something goes wrong. Jump on issues faster, pinpoint the problem with detailed traces and fix things in record time.

“Superior observability means you can take a proactive approach to root cause analysis, issue resolution, providing an enhanced user experience and optimizing your API operations. Say goodbye to bad API observability and hello to improved trace information and comprehensive support.”

Budhaditya Bhattacharya

| Developer Advocate, Tyk

Dive deeper into your data with Tyk and OTel

Logging without analytics is just raw data. Tyk is here to help you make sense of that data. Our API Gateway provides an entry point into your overall API stack (taking care of security and governance seamlessly along the way) and provides a starting point for your traces.

We make it easy to log as much or as little data as you need, in as much or as little detail as you need, so you can balance your observability requirements with your data storage costs. Tyk and OTel then feed your data-driven decision-making, letting you understand in depth who is using your APIs and how, so you can take an informed approach to resource allocation and product innovation.

So much more than observability

Get more with Tyk

Partnering with Tyk delivers rewards throughout the API lifecycle. In addition to powerful observability with OTel, we deliver a universal API management solution that has your back all the way from API design through to publishing, monetization and getting full value from your developer portal.

Benefits include:
  • Up to 45x faster release cycles
  • 25% less time to deployment on average
  • API gateway 10x faster than competitors

Full commitment to open standards

Tyk is fully committed to embracing open standards. We work seamlessly with OpenTelemetry, the OpenAPI Specification, OAuth and Open Policy Agent. We believe that ‘open’ is the start of everything and we’re proud members of the OpenAPI Specification, Linux Foundation and CNCF.

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Achieve more with Tyk and OTel

“It’s all about correlation. It’s not about just instrumenting your code and getting the data but correlating it. Then you will actually see the real power of your telemetry.”

Juliana Costa

| Datadog Developer Advocate and CNCF Ambassador

Embracing OpenTelemetry with Tyk means achieving more. Get ready for faster, more efficient troubleshooting and insights that support you to grow your business in response to user demand. It’s time to unleash the power of Tyk and OTel.

FAQs

  • How does Tyk integrate with OpenTelemetry to enhance API monitoring?

    Tyk integrates natively with OpenTelemetry to provide end-to-end distributed tracing across your API ecosystem. The Tyk Gateway serves as an entry point for trace collection, capturing detailed information about API requests and responses while handling security and governance. This integration allows you to see deeper into your systems than ever before, understanding dependencies, pinpointing issues faster, and using monitoring data to optimize performance across your entire API infrastructure.

  • Does Tyk's OpenTelemetry support work with different API protocols?

    Yes. Tyk provides a universal API management solution, with its support for OpenTelemetry working across REST, GraphQL, and event-driven async APIs, each with their own observability requirements. The platform allows you to create customized traces that work for your particular needs, molding around your existing architecture regardless of the API protocols you’re using. This flexibility ensures consistent observability across your entire API portfolio for deeper insights and faster troubleshooting.

  • How does Tyk help address privacy concerns in API monitoring?

    Tyk provides powerful flexibility in logging, allowing you to obfuscate logs to avoid storing personally identifiable information (PII). This capability helps you monitor comprehensively while protecting sensitive user data. You can tailor the level of detail in your traces to balance visibility needs with privacy and compliance considerations.

  • Can Tyk's OpenTelemetry integration connect with our existing alerting systems?

    Yes, Tyk can easily connect to your existing alerting systems to trigger emails, Slack messages, and other notifications as soon as something goes wrong. This real-time alerting capability allows you to jump on issues faster, pinpoint problems with detailed traces, and fix things in record time, minimizing downtime and improving overall system reliability and performance.

  • How customizable are the traces collected through Tyk's OpenTelemetry integration?

    Tyk allows you to fully customize traces to meet your specific monitoring and compliance needs. You can configure the OpenTelemetry integration in Tyk Gateway to collect exactly the information you need, at the level of detail that’s most useful for your use cases, giving you complete control over your observability implementation.

  • How does Tyk help balance observability requirements with data storage costs?

    Tyk makes it easy to log as much or as little data as you need, in as much or as little detail as required. This flexibility allows you to balance your observability requirements with your data storage costs, ensuring you get the insights you need without unnecessary expense. You can adjust collection parameters based on the criticality of different APIs or specific monitoring objectives.

  • How does Tyk's OpenTelemetry support contribute to faster troubleshooting?

    By providing detailed, end-to-end distributed tracing, Tyk’s OpenTelemetry integration allows you to quickly identify the root cause of issues across your distributed systems. The comprehensive trace information shows dependencies and interactions between services, making it easier to pinpoint exactly where problems are occurring. Combined with real-time alerting, this capability significantly reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR) for API issues.

  • Can Tyk's OpenTelemetry data help inform business decisions beyond technical troubleshooting?

    Yes, Tyk and OpenTelemetry together feed your data-driven decision-making by helping you understand in depth who is using your APIs and how. These insights allow you to take an informed approach to resource allocation and product innovation, identifying opportunities to improve your API offerings based on usage patterns. This business intelligence aspect transforms raw monitoring data into strategic business insights.

  • How does Tyk's approach to OpenTelemetry compare to implementing it ourselves?

    Tyk simplifies the implementation of OpenTelemetry by providing out-of-the-box integration that handles much of the complexity for you. By leveraging Tyk’s pre-built integration, you can achieve comprehensive observability without the engineering time, effort and cost required to implement OpenTelemetry from scratch.

  • Does Tyk's commitment to open standards extend beyond OpenTelemetry?

    Yes, Tyk is fully committed to embracing open standards. Beyond OpenTelemetry, Tyk works seamlessly with the OpenAPI Specification, OAuth, and Open Policy Agent. The company is a proud member of the OpenAPI Specification group, Linux Foundation, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This commitment ensures interoperability with your existing tools and protects you from vendor lock-in.

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