Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

Awesome Lists | Featured Topics | Projects

https://github.com/orb-community/orb

Orb is a dynamic network observability platform with agent fleet orchestration and data pipelines with OpenTelemetry
https://github.com/orb-community/orb

analysis cloud-native control-plane dns edge fleet-management flow metrics monitoring network-visibility o11y observability opentelemetry packet-analyser self-hosted telemetry

Last synced: about 16 hours ago
JSON representation

Orb is a dynamic network observability platform with agent fleet orchestration and data pipelines with OpenTelemetry

Awesome Lists containing this project

README 

        
Orb

Orb UI Preview



[![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/orb-community/orb)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/orb-community/orb)

[![CodeCov](https://codecov.io/gh/orb-community/orb/branch/develop/graph/badge.svg)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/orb-community/orb/tree/develop)

[![Go Reference](https://pkg.go.dev/badge/github.com/orb-community/orb.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/orb-community/orb)



**Orb** is a modern network observability platform built to provide critical visibility into increasingly complex and distributed networks. It can analyze network traffic, run synthetic network probes, and connect the resulting telemetry directly to your existing observability stacks with OpenTelemetry. Orb differentiates from other solutions by pushing analysis close to the traffic sources (reducing inactionable metrics and processing costs), and allows for dynamic reconfiguration of remote agents in real time.



Ready to dive in? See [orb.community](https://orb.community) for [installation instructions](https://orb.community/documentation/install/).



# Why Orb?



## Distributed Deep Network Observability



Orb manages a [fleet](https://orb.community/about/#fleet) of [agents](https://orb.community/about/#agent) deployed across

distributed, hybrid infrastructure:

containers, VMs, servers, routers and switches. The agent taps into traffic streams and extracts real time insights,

resulting in light-weight, actionable metrics.



## Streaming Analysis at the Edge



Based on the [pktvisor observability agent](https://pktvisor.dev), Orb's goal is to push analysis to the edge, where

high resolution data can be analysed in real time without the need to send raw data to a central location for batch

processing.

[Current analysis](https://github.com/orb-community/pktvisor/wiki/Current-Metrics) focuses on L2-L3 Network, DNS, and DHCP

with more analyzers in the works.



## Realtime Agent Orchestration



Orb uses IoT principles to allow the observability agents to connect out to the Orb central control plane, avoiding

firewall problems. Once connected, agents are controlled in real time from the Orb Portal or REST API, orchestrating

observability [policies](https://orb.community/about/#policies) designed to precisely extract the desired insights. Agents

are grouped and addressed based on [tags](https://orb.community/about/#agent-group).



## Flexible Integration With Modern Observability Stacks

Orb was built to integrate with modern observability stacks, supporting [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/) natively. Collection and sinking of the

metrics from the agents is included; there is no need to run additional data collection pipelines for Orb metrics.



## Portal and REST API Included



Orb includes a modern, responsive UI for managing Agents, Agent Groups, Policies and Sinks. Orb is API first, and all

platform functionality is available for automation via

the [well documented REST API](https://orb.community/api/orb_rest_api/).



## Open Source, Vendor Neutral, Cloud Native



Orb is free, open source software (FOSS) released under MPL. It's a modern microservices application that can be

deployed to any Kubernetes service in private or public cloud. It does not depend on any one vendor to function, thus

avoiding vendor lock-in.



***



# Backed by NetBox Labs



**Orb** was born at [NetBox Labs](https://netboxlabs.com/), where we're committed to

making [open source, dynamic edge observability a reality](https://ns1.com/blog/orb-a-new-paradigm-for-dynamic-edge-observability)

.



***



* [Installation Instructions](https://orb.community/documentation/install/)

* [View our Wiki](https://github.com/orb-community/orb/wiki) for technical and architectural information

* [File an issue](https://github.com/orb-community/orb/issues/new)

* Start a [Discussion](https://github.com/orb-community/orb/discussions)

* [Join us on Slack](https://netdev.chat/)

* Send mail to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])