Metrics and managing and understanding them is an essential part of any modern complex application. As with any active and busy technical ecosystem, there is a proliferation of competing open source monitoring standards. A handful emerges as the most popular solutions. Slowly, the community creates a standard that most projects follow in some way.

This article aims to help you navigate what’s available, what piece of the ecosystem puzzle an option fills, and crucially, how interoperable they are with each other.