CardinalHQ Telemetry Overview

CardinalHQ automatically collects and displays key metrics from collectors, rules, and sources/destinations, giving you a comprehensive view of your entire telemetry pipeline. By understanding these three components, you can proactively monitor resource utilization, data flows, and transformation logic—all from a single, unified interface.

Managed Collector Telemetry

Monitoring the health of your collectors is critical for ensuring uninterrupted data ingestion and transformation. The Managed Collector page outlines how we capture resource usage (CPU, memory), uptime, and other operational stats, helping you quickly identify capacity issues and potential bottlenecks.

Rule Telemetry

Rules within CardinalHQ govern data transformations such as filtering, masking, sampling, and more. The Rules page details how you can track:

• Conditions Matched vs. Not Matched
• Rule Evaluation Time
• Rule Evaluation Errors

This telemetry helps you confirm that your rules are effective, understand performance implications, and troubleshoot any misconfigurations.

Source and Destination Telemetry

Tracking your data’s journey from sources (receivers) to destinations (exporters) ensures every step in the pipeline is transparent. The Sources and Destinations page explains how to monitor:

• Accepted vs. Refused Data at sources
• Sent vs. Failed Data at destinations

By measuring acceptance and delivery rates, you can quickly spot ingestion bottlenecks, troubleshoot downstream failures, and maintain data integrity.

By combining insights from these three telemetry categories, you gain a holistic understanding of your pipelines’ health and performance. This integrated view enables fast troubleshooting, proactive scaling, and confident observability across all of your services.