The pipeline that powers Active Telemetry

Shape, enrich, and route telemetry data in real time—before it hits your observability tools. Reduce costs, increase control, and accelerate incident response with Mezmo's Telemetry Pipeline.

Smarter data, better observability

Telemetry Pipeline is the real-time engine behind Mezmo's Active Telemetry approach. It sits between your telemetry sources and your observability platforms—giving you full control over what gets ingested, where it goes, and how it behaves.
Active engagement

Enable developers to self-serve while maintaining centralized governance

Active routing

Intelligently direct telemetry to appropriate destinations in real-time

Active analysis

Process, enrich, and transform data before storage or indexing

Telemetry pipeline benefits
  • Enrich, reduce, and transform telemetry at the source
  • Eliminate noisy logs, redundant traces, and expensive metric sprawl
  • Feed clean, contextual data to observability stacks and AI systems

Transform your observability strategy

Process telemetry data before it reaches your observability tools, and gain unprecedented control over data quality, volume, and business value.
Cost control
Slash observability spend by eliminating low-value telemetry.
Faster MTTR
Live tail and tail-based sampling for instant troubleshooting.
Platform agility
Support OTel, CI/CD, and multi-cloud with code-driven pipelines.
Developer enablement
Self-service debugging with platform guardrails

Key capabilities for telemetry pipelines

Live tail + replay

Stream telemetry data in real-time and replay buffered events for instant incident investigation without waiting for indexing or storage delays.

Tail-based sampling

Make intelligent sampling decisions after seeing complete trace spans, ensuring critical errors and anomalies are always captured while dropping routine traffic.

Data profiling

Continuously analyze telemetry patterns to identify high-volume, low-value data streams and provide actionable recommendations for cost optimization.

Pipeline-as-code

Define, version, and deploy telemetry pipelines using declarative configuration files integrated with your existing CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Responsive pipelines

Automatically adapt pipeline behavior based on real-time conditions, scaling processing capacity and adjusting sampling rates to maintain performance during traffic spikes.

Data enrichment

Enhance telemetry data with contextual metadata from external sources, standardize formats, and add business context to improve observability and enable better analysis.

Cardinality management

Monitor and control metric cardinality in real-time to prevent exponential cost increases from high-cardinality tags while preserving essential dimensional data.

Metric aggregation

Transform thousands of custom metrics into high-value aggregates (p95, p99, averages) to slash observability costs while improving signal quality downstream.

Real-world use cases for telemetry pipelines

See how teams like yours are winning with Active Telemetry
AuditBoard
Enterprise SaaS

Challenge

Datadog costs growing 300% year-over-year with limited visibility into spending

Solution

Implemented Mezmo pipelines to filter and aggregate logs before Datadog ingestion

Results

✔️ 52% reduction in Datadog costs
✔️ 40% faster incident resolution
✔️ 90% reduction in noisy alerts

Netlink Voice
Telecommunications

Challenge

Overwhelming telemetry data volume from network infrastructure

Solution

Implemented Mezmo pipelines to filter and aggregate logs before Used Mezmo to filter and parse data, indexing only necessary fields

Results

✔️ 50% reduction in overall telemetry data
✔️ Eliminated redundant data storage
✔️ Improved query performance by 3x

Explore more

Browse resources to learn more about how it works
Blog
How to Cut Observability Costs with Synthetic Monitoring and Responsive Pipelines
eBook
How 10 Mezmo Customers used Telemetry Pipelines to Streamline Data and Cut Noise
Blog
Top Five Reasons Telemetry Pipelines Should Be on Every Engineer’s Radar
Analyst Report
Gartner Report: Get your Observability Spend Under Control

Get control of your telemetry

Before it controls you