Evolution of Application Monitoring at 得物: From CAT to OpenTelemetry
After rebuilding its transaction system in 2020, 得物 progressed from the basic CAT monitoring tool to OpenTracing with Prometheus, and finally adopted OpenTelemetry to unify metrics, traces, and logs via a custom vmagent‑Kafka‑Flink pipeline, dynamic sampling, and extensible javaagents, positioning the platform for a performance‑analysis‑driven future.