PeratonBNATCS · Observability
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FAA BNATCSOpenTelemetry-firstDeploy anywhere

Modernizing America's air traffic control observability

Live demonstration for Peraton — interactive walkthroughs against otel-demo-a5630c. Explore metrics at scale, mission-critical Kubernetes reliability, real-user monitoring, AI-assisted root-cause analysis, and unified observability + security on a platform built for data sovereignty and multi-cloud FAA modernization.

Predictable economics at scale

Transparent licensing and flexible storage tiers support long BNATCS retention without unpredictable usage overages.

  • Tiered hot/warm/frozen storage for modernization archives
  • Unified platform reduces duplicate ingest across separate tools
  • Resource-based model designed for predictable growth at FAA scale

Deploy anywhere · data sovereignty

Self-managed, Elastic Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), GovCloud, hybrid, and air-gapped — Peraton chooses where data lives.

  • Separate Elastic Cloud projects per cloud provider for performance and isolation
  • Same OpenTelemetry instrumentation across on-prem NAS, cloud, and edge
  • No requirement to centralize telemetry in a single vendor region

Unified logs, metrics, traces — and security

One platform for observability and SIEM reduces tool sprawl and correlates infra signals with security events.

  • Single Elasticsearch data tier — correlate APM traces with audit and security logs
  • Shared entity model (hosts, services, users) across O11y and Security
  • One operations team, one retention policy, predictable economics at FAA scale

Speed and scale at telemetry volume

Elasticsearch is built for high-cardinality metrics and high-volume log ingestion — the same engine behind Security at scale.

  • TSDB + PromQL GA for Prometheus-compatible metrics at OTel scale
  • Tiered storage and data streams for long-retention modernization archives
  • Proven at petabyte-scale federal and Fortune 500 workloads

OpenTelemetry-first · no vendor lock-in

Instrument once with OTel; export to Elastic today or any OTLP backend tomorrow.

  • Managed OTLP (mOTLP) ingestion — this demo exports via @vercel/otel
  • Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) for zero-code auto-instrumentation
  • Standards-based telemetry avoids proprietary agent lock-in

FedRAMP · GovCloud · federal past performance

Elastic supports federal mission requirements with authorized cloud offerings and on-prem options.

  • Elastic Cloud on AWS GovCloud (FedRAMP Moderate)
  • Self-managed on classified or isolated networks when SaaS is not an option
  • Public-sector references: DoD, civilian agencies, state/local

Walkthrough