Company
Date Published
Author
Coralogix Team
Word count
1460
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text provides a detailed guide on configuring the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Community Demo Application to send telemetry data to Coralogix, a platform for analyzing and gaining insights from data. It introduces the OpenTelemetry Demo v1.0, an end-to-end distributed system designed to simplify the creation of sample applications with full OpenTelemetry instrumentation. The demo app functions as a microservice-based online store with over 14 microservices, supporting multiple languages and using various libraries for communication. The guide describes using Docker and Docker Compose on a local machine to set up the OTel Collector, a vendor-neutral component that processes and exports telemetry data, and outlines six steps to configure the application, including cloning the repository, updating configuration files, launching the sample, and viewing telemetry data on the Coralogix dashboard. The OTel Demo App is portrayed as a useful tool for understanding OpenTelemetry and its best practices, with additional resources and support offered by Coralogix for users interested in further exploration.