Overview

OpenTelemetry Connect Instrumentation allows the user to automatically collect trace data and export them to the backend of choice (Collector Exporter), to give observability to distributed systems.

This is a simple example that demonstrates tracing calls made to Connect API. The example shows key aspects of tracing such as

• Root Span (on Client)
• Child Span (on Client)
• Span Events
• Span Attributes

Installation

# from this directory
npm install

Run the Application

Collector - docker container

• Run docker container with collector

  # from this directory
  $ npm run docker:start

Server

• Run the server

  # from this directory
  $ npm run server

• Run the client

  # from this directory
  npm run client

Zipkin UI

Go to Zipkin with your browser http://localhost:9411/

Useful links

• For more information on OpenTelemetry, visit: https://opentelemetry.io/
• For more information on OpenTelemetry for Node.js, visit: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/tree/main/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-trace-node

LICENSE

Apache License 2.0