What is Edge Delta?

Edge Delta is a new approach to managing telemetry data. It processes your data as it’s created and enables you to route it anywhere. As a result, you can make observability and security costs predictable, surface the most useful insights, and shape your data.

You can use Edge Delta for monitoring your workloads, querying large-scale log datasets, or creating observability pipelines.

Architecture

Edge Delta uses a fleet consisting of agents deployed directly within your computing infrastructure, such as Kubernetes clusters. This deployment strategy places it close to the data sources, facilitating immediate analysis and data optimization on the edge. The Edge Delta Fleet pre-processes data, which includes extracting insights, generating alerts, creating summarized datasets, and performing additional tasks. Processed data is then transmitted to various endpoints in a streamlined manner, including Edge Delta’s processing engine (Edge Delta Back End), external monitoring tools, or data storage solutions.

Key components of Edge Delta’s Fleet are the Processing Agent, Compactor Agent,and Rollup Agent. The Processing Agent executes the pipelines. The Compactor Agent is designed to compress and encode data such as metrics and logs into efficient formats. The Rollup Agent aggregates metric data by optimizing data point frequency and cardinality, which notably reduces storage needs and can accelerate data retrievals.

A Fleet is one or more sets of agents configured with a single Pipeline configuration. One Fleet can consist of agents deployed in multiple different environments, all configured with the same Pipeline.

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