Streamwake + Prometheus + OpenTelemetry.
Don't replace your Prom + OTel stack — we read the scrape targets and OpenTelemetry traces the operator already runs and classify streaming-domain failures on top.
Don't replace your Prom + OTel stack — we read the scrape targets and OpenTelemetry traces the operator already runs, classify streaming-domain failures on top, and emit the typed remediation back as Prom metrics and an OTel remediation event so the loop closes inside the operator's own infra.
Prometheus + OpenTelemetry open-source metrics + traces — prometheus scrape + otel collector. Streamwake doesn't replace Prometheus + OpenTelemetry— we correlate its signals and drive remediation on the anomalies it already surfaces.
What Prometheus + OpenTelemetry own. What Streamwake runs on top.
Honest framing of the surface the vendor owns and the surface Streamwake runs on top of it. Both layers run together in production — same signal bus, different obligations.
Telemetry plane
Alerting + routing
Detect → Classify → Fix on operator-owned infra
Bi-directional close
An incident closed
before your viewers notice.
Four steps from a Prometheus + OpenTelemetryanomaly to a closed incident with a typed postmortem. Read top to bottom — the loop is closed end to end.
- 1
Ingest Prom scrape series + OTel trace/log spans
Prometheus scrape series from the targets the operator already polls and OTel trace spans + log records from the OTel collector pipelines the operator already runs land on the Streamwake signal bus via a single REST POST. No new scrape targets; the agent reads the ones the operator owns.
- 2
Correlate + streaming-classify
The agent joins Prom metrics against OTel trace spans on the same bus, then ranks root cause with a typed confidence score (comparator_record_drift vs alertmanager_silence_window_skew vs otel_pipeline_backpressure vs prom_recording_rule_slo_burn_skew).
- 3
Recommend/run remediation AND emit as Prom + OTel
The agent picks the smallest safe remediation — re-anchor a Prom recording-rule SLO, rotate an OTel exporter retry-loop, retune an Alertmanager group_by, fail over a saturated collector exporter — verifies recovery, AND emits the same remediation as a Prom metric the operator can immediately re-scrape AND as an OTel remediation event the collector drops back into the routing connector.
- 4
Write the postmortem
A structured writeup — what happened, what was tried, what changed — lands in the team's inbox AND as a typed Prom metric + OTel event the moment the incident resolves. Both sides of the loop close inside the operator's own Prom + OTel infra.
Four failure modes Prometheus + OpenTelemetry alerts alone miss.
Each one is something the Prometheus + OpenTelemetrysignal exposes but the agent loop names and acts on — so a chart becomes a closed incident rather than a triage queue.
Comparator Record Drift
Comparator-record drift between OTel emitter metrics — two exporters sending the same metric_name with different label sets (one with the streaming-service tag, the other without) makes the join silently halve at the Prom aggregation. Prometheus surfaces the count dip; Streamwake catches the comparator-record skew on the same signal and re-anchors the cardinality so the join lands in lockstep again.
Alertmanager Silence Window Skew
An Alertmanager silence stanza that picked up a duplicate group_by and now silences the right service for the wrong window — the on-call rotation thinks it's quiet while the underlying alert kept firing every cycle. Prometheus shows the firing record; Streamwake catches the silence-vs-firing skew the moment two consecutive windows disagree and re-anchors the silence to the correct group_by before the next rotation flip.
Otel Pipeline Backpressure
An OTel collector pipeline saturates at the routing connector → exporter handoff — exporter retry-loop kicks in, the batch processor queue grows, and live spans start dropping at the source. Prometheus shows the queue counter; Streamwake catches the connector-saturation + the exporter retry-loop on the same bus and either shrinks the retry budget or fails over to a secondary exporter before live spans pile up.
Prom Recording Rule Slo Burn Skew
A Prom recording-rule SLO burn-rate window drifted from its real burn-rate — the recording rule tracks a 30d window while the underlying service burn now runs faster, so dashboards report "within budget" until the alerting window trips the wrong rule. Streamwake catches the recording-rule-vs-burn-rate skew on the same signal and re-anchors the rule to the current burn-rate curve before the next brown-out trips the wrong alert.
Monitor your Prom + OTel pipeline free.
Next to Prometheus + OpenTelemetry.
Paste your Prom scrape URL or OTel collector endpoint — /stream-check runs the same five checks (manifest, segments, bitrate ladder, CDN response, playback errors) in under a minute. No login. Pair it with the Book-a-demo block below for a guided walkthrough of the loop closure inside your own Prom + OTel infra.
Regional CDN brownout caught between the two OTel exporters the operator already runs.
prom_edge_replay_skew_seconds series split landed two label-set variants from the operator's two regional OTel exporters — one with the streaming_service label, one without. The Prom aggregation joined at ~52% of the right-sized rate, while the matching otel_collector_pipeline_dropped_spans_total counter on the routing connector → exporter handoff climbed to 3,142 vs 198baseline — a regional CDN brownout hidden by comparator-record drift on the operator's own Prom + OTel pipe.
The agent classified it as comparator_record_drift + cdn_brownout at 89% confidence, re-anchored the OTel emitter label set across both exporters (forcing the streaming_service label into both pipelines), rerouted egress off the brownout PoP, and emitted the typed remediation back as a Prom metric AND a typed OTel remediation event — the brownout cleared within 14 minutes. Both sides closed on the operator's own infra — no downstream SaaS in the middle.
Direct mapping to the Streamwake loop on the operator-owned Prom + OTel surface — every Prom scrape series the agent reads is the same series the agent updates, and every OTel remediation event the agent posts lands back through the routing connector the operator already runs. The agent that closed the primetime brownout is the same one that catches an Alertmanager silence-window skew the moment two consecutive windows disagree, drains an OTel collector pipeline retry-loop before live spans pile up, and re-anchors a Prom recording-rule SLO to the real burn-rate curve before the next brown-out trips the wrong alert.
Book a 20-minute walkthrough on your Prom scrape targets + OTel collector pipeline.
We're happy to walk through how the comparator-record-drift, Alertmanager-silence- window-skew, OTel-pipeline-backpressure, and Prom-recording-rule-SLO-burn-skew probes close-the-loop on top of the Prom scrape targets and OTel collector the operator already runs. Drop your details below and we'll follow up within 1 business day.