Observability Mythbusters: How hard is it to get started with OpenTelemetry?

• opentelemetry-demo

  18 1,398 9.5 TypeScript

  This repository contains the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment.

  

The OpenTelemetry Demo repo was created to help lower the barrier to entry into OpenTelemetry and to illustrate its awesomeness. It features a fully-functioning online store made up of multiple micro-services, written in different languages that are supported by OpenTelemetry, that can send traces to an Observability back end, like Lightstep. (OMG that was a mouthful!) Most importantly, I found it superly duperly easy to set up and get going!

• opentelemetry-specification

  99 3,596 9.2 Makefile

  Specifications for OpenTelemetry

  

Lightstep ingests data in native OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) format, so we will use the OTLP Exporter. The exporter can be called either otlp or follow the naming format otlp/. We could call it otlp/bob if we wanted to. We're calling our exporter otlp/ls to signal to us that we are using the OTLP exporter to send the data to Lightstep.

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• opentelemetry-demo

  1 5 3.8 TypeScript

  OpenTelemetry Community Demo Application modified to get data into Lightstep Observability (by lightstep)

  

For this tutorial, we will be using a modified version of the OpenTelemetry Demo repo. This repo has been modified to demonstrate how to send data to Lightstep using the OTel Collector. While the upstream repo contains configs to send data to a local installation of Jaeger, the modified version contains configs to send data to Lightstep. We will be keeping the Lightstep repo in sync with the upstream repo.

• opentelemetry-collector

  16 3,860 9.9 Go

  OpenTelemetry Collector

  

Lightstep ingests data in native OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) format, so we will use the OTLP Exporter. The exporter can be called either otlp or follow the naming format otlp/. We could call it otlp/bob if we wanted to. We're calling our exporter otlp/ls to signal to us that we are using the OTLP exporter to send the data to Lightstep.

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