Tintri and Integration Plumbers Introduce Open-Source Integration to Unify Storage and Observability

(SeaPRwire) –   AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – 01/04/2026 – (SeaPRwire) – Tintri and Integration Plumbers have collaboratively launched an open-source integration designed to revolutionize how enterprise IT teams retrieve and utilize infrastructure data. This new solution links Tintri’s VMstore platform directly to modern observability ecosystems, allowing organizations to combine storage insights with application and infrastructure monitoring into a single, cohesive workflow.

This partnership mirrors a larger trend in enterprise IT toward integrated observability—an approach where data from all layers of the tech stack is collected and analyzed comprehensively. Using OpenTelemetry standards, the integration breaks down traditional silos between storage systems and application monitoring, providing enhanced visibility without the need for proprietary tools.

Tackling Fragmentation in Modern IT Environments

In today’s highly distributed, cloud-native setups, pinpointing the root cause of performance problems continues to be a recurring challenge. IT teams frequently use multiple monitoring platforms, each focused on a distinct layer like storage, networking, or applications. This disjointed method demands manual data correlation and cross-team collaboration, which delays incident resolution and adds to operational complexity.

Storage systems, in particular, have long functioned in silos, using their own vendor-specific tools and dashboards. This isolation leads to blind spots that impede thorough analysis and extend mean time to resolution (MTTR).

A Unified Data Pipeline for Observability

The newly released integration tackles these issues by creating a unified telemetry pipeline based on OpenTelemetry. Tintri’s detailed storage metrics are automatically fed into the observability platforms organizations already use, doing away with the need for separate storage monitoring tools.

Unlike conventional storage solutions that offer limited visibility at the volume level, Tintri’s VMstore architecture collects performance data at the individual virtual machine and containerized workload level. This method produces highly context-rich insights that can be directly linked to application and infrastructure metrics.

The integration works with popular observability platforms including Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and other OpenTelemetry-supported systems, enabling organizations to keep flexibility in their monitoring approaches.

Driving Operational Efficiency and Business Value

By consolidating telemetry data across the entire tech stack, the solution offers multiple concrete advantages:

• Faster Root Cause Analysis: Combined dashboards let teams rapidly spot performance bottlenecks across storage, applications, and infrastructure.
• Lower Operational Overhead: Removes the requirement for multiple monitoring tools, cutting down on complexity and administrative load.
• No Extra Licensing Fees: Built to work with existing observability platforms, so organizations avoid additional software costs.
• Vendor Neutrality: Based on open standards, allowing smooth transitions between monitoring tools without major reconfigurations.
• Future-Ready Design: Being part of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, the integration advances in line with industry standards and community input.

Built for Open Ecosystems

From a technical standpoint, the integration is deployed as an OpenTelemetry Collector component. It collects metrics from Tintri VMstore systems and the Tintri Global Center via REST APIs and maps them to standardized OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.

This standardization allows for instant interoperability with Kubernetes environments and application telemetry. Data can be sent to any OTLP-compatible backend—such as Prometheus, ClickHouse, Datadog, and Dynatrace—without needing to modify the integration.

The project will be donated to the OpenTelemetry community, guaranteeing continuous development and adherence to open-source best practices.

Upcoming Technical Session

Tintri and Integration Plumbers will host a 60-minute technical deep dive—featuring a live demo of OpenTelemetry-powered storage observability—on April 15, 2026, at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET.

About Tintri
Tintri offers an AI-driven, workload-aware data management platform tailored for virtualized and containerized environments. Its VMstore solution delivers automation, quality of service (QoS), and predictive analytics at the individual workload level.

About Integration Plumbers
Integration Plumbers focuses on observability integrations, creating OpenTelemetry-based data pipelines that unify monitoring across enterprise systems through open standards.