The sections below explain how to find and how to gather data for our telemetry around data size and number.

How many spans are we storing in Honeycomb?

To find how many events (spans, span events etc) are stored in Honeycomb as long as you’re an admin you can find the number per month here under Events Breakdown

How much data are we sending to our Otel-Collectors and Refinery?

To find how many bytes have been sent to the otel-collectors in the Banno/Digital GCP space Google Monitoring

The query to use is sum(increase(kubernetes_io:pod_network_sent_bytes_count{monitored_resource="k8s_pod",pod_name=~"otel-collector-.*"}[86400s])) You’ll want to set the Y-axis assignment to byte on the right hand side.

For how many bytes we’re sending in Origin’s space per exporter Datadog Metrics

How many spans are we producing from our applications?

To find how many events we’re sending from our infrastructure and applications we can look at Grafana explore mode using this query: sum(increase(otelcol_exporter_sent_spans{exporter=~".*"}[$__range])) by (exporter)

At the bottom of that page in the Raw tab you’ll see the number for the time period you’re looking for.