Fiberplane today added an ability to automatically collect metrics in real-time and make them accessible either via its namesake notebook software for debugging infrastructure or an open source Grafana dashboard.

Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said Autometrics is an open source set of libraries the company created to make it simpler for developers to see platform performance metrics using a set of tools embedded within their integrated development environment (IDE).

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The goal is to reduce the cognitive load on developers; today, developers need to first determine what metrics to track, find a way to collect the appropriate data and then launch queries against those metrics to determine the root cause of an issue, said Hernandez van Leuffen.

Autometrics, in contrast, provides access to a set of common queries using the Prometheus programming language (PromQL) against data that has been collected using open source OpenTelemetry agent software, he noted.

That approach, for example, makes it simpler to track error rates, response time and latency of any function. Links to live charts based on real-time data can also be inserted into the comments section of any document a development team creates.

The Fiberplane notebook uses the same operational transformation algorithm embedded within Google Docs to enable teams to easily collaborate around a document or spreadsheet. The core platform itself is built in Rust and WebAssembly (Wasm) to make it simpler to integrate Fiberplane as a plug-in into an existing DevOps workflow.

Autometrics extends that capability in a way that enables DevOps teams to provide developers with instant access to observability data. They can then see how their code is performing on any given platform, which is critical as more responsibility for running applications continues to shift left, said Hernandez van Leuffen. Today, many developers need to wait for an IT operations team to share data collected via an observability platform that was designed to be used by ITOps rather than a developer, he added.

As observability capabilities become more federated across the entire software development life cycle, it’s critical to make sure developers and IT operations teams can see metrics being generated in real-time. Otherwise, confusion arises because teams are not looking at the same set of metrics.

Fiberplane address that issue by taking the concept of notebooks—often used by data science teams to collaborate—and applying it to DevOps workflows to reduce the amount of time it takes to resolve any issue. As IT environments become more distributed in the age of the cloud and microservices, troubleshooting issues invariably spans the responsibilities of multiple members of an IT team. In effect, a notebook makes it possible to spin up a virtual war room on demand that enables the members of an IT organization to collaborate—regardless of where they are physically located or which organization they may be employed by.