OpenTelemetry basics: Trace ingest to Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry, while powerful, can be complex to implement, but a basic setup involves three core components: a trace generator application, an OpenTelemetry collector, and a storage backend such as Dynatrace. This tutorial guides users through establishing a simplified OpenTelemetry architecture using Docker, where a new network, tracegen-demo-net, is created for ease of container communication. The process involves running a collector container named otelcol and a trace generator container, which emits trace data to the collector, configured to pass the data to Dynatrace. Users can observe the generated traces in Dynatrace's Distributed Traces interface. Although manual setup is demonstrated, deploying the OneAgent on hosts can simplify the process by reducing the need for application instrumentation and an OpenTelemetry collector.

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