opentelemetry-js/examples/collector-exporter-node/README.md

Overview

This example shows how to use @opentelemetry/exporter-collector to instrument a simple Node.js application.

This example will export spans data simultaneously using Exporter Collector and grpc. It will use proto format.

Installation

# from this directory
npm install

Run the Application

1. Run docker

   # from this directory
   npm run docker:start
   

2. Run tracing app

   # from this directory
   npm run start:tracing
   

3. Run metrics app

   # from this directory
   npm run start:metrics
   

4. Open page at http://localhost:9411/zipkin/ - you should be able to see the spans in zipkin

Prometheus UI

The prometheus client will be available at http://localhost:9090.

Note: It may take some time for the application metrics to appear on the Prometheus dashboard.

Useful links

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

LICENSE

Apache License 2.0