109-opentelemetry-export

109-opentelemetry-export

In this cookbook the OpenTelemetry Collector receives OTLP-gRPC telemetry from a Go app and exports to both APM OpenTelemetry Collector using Native OTLP gRPC protocol and to the open-source Zipkin all-in-one using Zipkin protocol.

The Go app is a simple demo application provided by the OpenTelemetry project. In the cookbook it is set to run indefinitely to generate telemetry.

Prerequisites

1. an APM account (SaaS)
2. a Docker host, for example Docker Desktop

Step by Step

1. Get your CustomerID & SaaS Analysis Server Host details from the APM web console

Navigate to APM (for example https://apm.myaccount.aternity.com) > Agents > Install Agents:

1. Find your CustomerID, for example 12341234-12341234-13241234
2. Grab SaaS Analysis Server Host, for example agents.apm.myaccount.aternity.com

Those information are required to activate the APM OpenTelemetry Collector container, passing via the environment variable SERVER_URL.

2. Start the containers

Download a local copy of the files docker-compose.yaml and otel-collector-config.yaml, for example in the directory Tech-Community/109-opentelemetry-export

Start the containers using the docker-compose.yaml, for example with Bash:

cd Riverbed-Community-Toolkit/APM/109-opentelemetry-export

# Configure the environment variables for the APM OpenTelemetry Collector
export RIVERBED_APM_SAAS_SERVER_HOST="agents.apm.myaccount.aternity.com"
export RIVERBED_APM_CUSTOMER_ID="12341234-12341234-13241234"

docker-compose up

or with PowerShell:

cd Riverbed-Community-Toolkit/APM/109-opentelemetry-export

# Configure the environement variable for the APM OpenTelemetry Collector
$env:RIVERBED_APM_SAAS_SERVER_HOST="agents.apm.myaccount.aternity.com"
$env:RIVERBED_APM_CUSTOMER_ID="12341234-12341234-13241234"

docker-compose up

Open the APM web console to visualize and analyze the traces collected for every transaction

Notes

Stop the app and all the containers

Press CTRL + C in the shell where it is running.

Or in a shell, go to the folder where you keep the docker-compose.yaml and run:

docker-compose down

License

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