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Brian L. Troutwine edited this page Oct 4, 2017 · 16 revisions

Cernan is a telemetry and log data pipelining server. It exposes multiple interfaces for ingestion and can emit to mutiple aggregation sources while doing in-flight manipulation of data. Cernan has minimal CPU and memory requirements and is intended to service bursty telemetry without load shedding. Cernan aims to be reliable and convenient to use, both for application engineers and operations staff.

Why you might choose to use cernan:

  • You need to ingest telemetry from multiple protocols.
  • You need to multiplex telemetry over aggregation services.
  • You want to convert log lines into telemetry.
  • You want to convert telemetry into log lines.
  • You want to transform telemetry or log lines in-flight.

Here are things you might find interesting if you're looking to use cernan in your own infrastructure:

You'll find a full table of contents in the sidebar to this wiki. It is presented in roughly recommended reading order.