Owlpane Platform Architecture

Owlpane separates high-throughput telemetry ingestion from workspace control-plane operations so that telemetry pipelines remain resilient at scale.

Architecture Diagrams

The multi-page architecture diagram source lives in diagrams/owlpane-platform.drawio with rendered SVG views in diagrams/rendered/01-system-context.svg:

System Context (01-system-context.svg) — Applications, Owlpane SDKs, OpenTelemetry collectors, and Kubernetes Helm agents sending telemetry to the Owlpane data plane and querying through the console, CLI, and MCP server.
Ingest & Query Dataflow (02-ingest-and-query-dataflow.svg) — OTLP HTTP/gRPC endpoints at ingest.owlpane.com, owl_ing_* authentication, stream partitioning, columnar Parquet compaction on object storage, and federated SQL / metric query execution.
Dashboard Lifecycle (03-dashboard-lifecycle.svg) — How the the Owlpane dashboard library library, built-in templates, and JSON importers feed the console Dashboards hub (/observability/dashboards).
Deployment Topology (04-deployment-topology.svg) — Local development stack versus multi-cell cloud production topology.

System Context

Component	Role	Public endpoint
Ingest & Query Cell	High-throughput OTLP HTTP/gRPC ingestion, stream compaction, and SQL/metric execution	`ingest.owlpane.com` (HTTP/gRPC)
Control Plane API	Organizations, projects, `owl_ing_*` keys, dashboards, monitors, SLOs, and incidents	`api.owlpane.com`
Web Console	Interactive observability UI, Dashboards hub, Logs/Metrics/Traces explorers, and Setup wizard	`console.owlpane.com`
Dashboard Library	Curated integration dashboards and collector configs synced into the API catalog	Bundled