Configure OpenShift Distributed Tracing Data Collection

Deploy distributed tracing data collection

1. Click on the book icon, to add application from Developer Catalog then type collector in the search box. Select OpenTelemetry Collector and click Create button.

   

   Deploy OpenTelemetry collector
2. Switch to YAML view, copy following YAML snippet to the editor. ❗ DO NOT FORGET to change userX in line 16 to your user, then click Create button.

   YAML snippet:

   apiVersion: opentelemetry.io/v1alpha1
   kind: OpenTelemetryCollector
   metadata:
     name: otel
   spec:
     mode: deployment
     config: |
       receivers:
         otlp:
           protocols:
             grpc:
             http:
       processors:
       exporters:
         jaeger:
           endpoint: jaeger-collector-headless.userX-super-heroes.svc.cluster.local:14250
           tls:
             ca_file: "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-ca.crt"
       service:
         pipelines:
           traces:
             receivers: [otlp]
             processors: []
             exporters: [jaeger]

   

   Deploy OpenTelemetry collector
3. Wait for a monent you'll see OpenTelemetry collector instance get deployed.

   

   Deploy OpenTelemetry collector

What have you learnt?

How to deploy distributed tracing data collection (based on OpenTelemetry open source project).