AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – 01/04/2026 – (SeaPRwire) – Tintri and Integration Plumbers have jointly introduced an open-source integration aimed at transforming how enterprise IT teams access and act on infrastructure data. The new solution connects Tintri’s VMstore platform directly into modern observability ecosystems, enabling organizations to consolidate storage insights with application and infrastructure monitoring in a single, unified workflow.
The collaboration reflects a broader shift in enterprise IT toward integrated observability, where data from across the technology stack is aggregated and analyzed holistically. By leveraging OpenTelemetry standards, the integration removes traditional barriers between storage systems and application-level monitoring, delivering deeper visibility without reliance on proprietary tools.
Tackling Fragmentation in Modern IT Environments
In highly distributed, cloud-native architectures, identifying the root cause of performance issues remains a persistent challenge. IT teams often rely on multiple monitoring platforms, each dedicated to a specific layer such as storage, networking, or applications. This fragmented approach requires manual data correlation and cross-team coordination, slowing down incident response and increasing operational complexity.
Storage systems, in particular, have historically operated in isolation, with their own vendor-specific tools and dashboards. This separation creates blind spots that hinder comprehensive analysis and prolong mean time to resolution (MTTR).
A Unified Data Pipeline for Observability
The newly launched integration addresses these challenges by establishing a single telemetry pipeline built on OpenTelemetry. Tintri’s granular storage metrics are automatically ingested into the observability platforms already in use, eliminating the need for separate storage monitoring tools.
Unlike traditional storage solutions that provide limited visibility at the volume level, Tintri’s VMstore architecture captures performance data at the level of individual virtual machines and containerized workloads. This approach generates highly contextualized insights that can be directly correlated with application and infrastructure metrics.
The integration is compatible with widely adopted observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and other OpenTelemetry-enabled systems, allowing organizations to maintain flexibility in their monitoring strategies.
Driving Operational Efficiency and Business Value
By unifying telemetry data across the stack, the solution delivers several tangible benefits:
- Faster Root Cause Analysis: Consolidated dashboards enable teams to quickly identify performance bottlenecks across storage, applications, and infrastructure.
- Reduced Operational Overhead: Eliminates the need for multiple monitoring tools, reducing complexity and administrative burden.
- No Additional Licensing Costs: Designed to integrate with existing observability platforms, avoiding incremental software investments.
- Vendor Independence: Built on open standards, enabling seamless migration between monitoring tools without significant reconfiguration.
- Future-Proof Architecture: As part of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, the integration evolves alongside industry standards and community contributions.
Built for Open Ecosystems
Technically, the integration is implemented as an OpenTelemetry Collector component. It gathers metrics from Tintri VMstore systems and the Tintri Global Center through REST APIs and maps them to standardized OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.
This standardization enables immediate interoperability with Kubernetes environments and application telemetry. Data can be routed to any OTLP-compatible backend—including Prometheus, ClickHouse, Datadog, and Dynatrace—without requiring modifications to the integration.
The project will be contributed to the OpenTelemetry community, ensuring ongoing development and alignment with open-source best practices.
Upcoming Technical Session
Tintri and Integration Plumbers will host a 60-minute technical deep dive, including a live demonstration of OpenTelemetry-based storage observability, on April 15, 2026, at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET.
About Tintri
Tintri delivers an AI-powered, workload-aware data management platform designed for virtualized and containerized environments. Its VMstore solution provides automation, quality of service (QoS), and predictive analytics at the individual workload level.
About Integration Plumbers
Integration Plumbers specializes in observability integrations, building OpenTelemetry-based data pipelines that unify monitoring across enterprise systems using open standards.
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