Collaborative notebook startup Fiberplane BV today announced a new set of open-source libraries that enables developers to take advantage of metrics in the observability stack.

Called Autometrics, the libraries are designed to address the issue wherein existing observability tools require complex configurations written in YAML, which is a programming language for human-readable data serialization, often used for writing configuration files. That makes the work harder for developers, so few are using and benefiting from the use of metrics in their production environments.

Fiberplane’s Autometrics is designed to make understanding production systems more accessible and straightforward for developers by bringing the data into integrated development environments. The metrics are tied to individual functions, making it easier to jump from code to production data. The libraries ensure that once developers query their data, they can be confident that they are looking at the correct information.

Autometrics leverages OpenTelemetry and Prometheus while providing what is claimed to be a unique and more developer-focused approach. The service also includes a new dashboard that provides an overview of the live state of the system.

Other benefits include the ability for developers to more easily track the error rate, response time and latency of any function. The service automatically writes PromQL queries for developers so they can understand the data generated without having to hand-write complex queries.

It can be used to insert links in live charts directly into each function’s document comments so developers can jump straight from looking at their code to looking at the real-time data for that function. And it enables developers to use best practices for service-level objectives to define useful alerts more easily.

“To make use of metrics, developers need to think about what to track, how to track it, how to query the data once they have it and how to operationalize the data with alerts and dashboards,” founder and Chief Executive Micha “mies” Hernandez van Leuffen said in a statement. “Fiberplane’s new Autometrics addresses many of these developer experience problems, ultimately making it easier for them to understand how their code is performing in production.”

Fiberplane was previously in the news in November when it launched a public beta test of its real-time collaboration tool for site reliability engineers. The company is venture capital-backed, with investors that include Crane Venture Partners Ltd., Northzone Ltd., Notion Capital Ltd., Base Case Capital LLC and System One Holdings LLC.

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