README.md

Introduction

This project was created to explore the OpenTelemetry library, demonstrating its various distributed tracing capabilities through pocs along with different exporters such as Application Insights, Geneva, and Jaeger.

Getting Started

1. Geneva POC:
   • Visual Studio Dependency
   • .Net Core Framework dependency
   • refer to geneva documentation: https://eng.ms/docs/products/geneva/collect/instrument/opentelemetrydotnet/installation
2. Application Insights POC:
   • Visual Studio Dependency
   • .Net Core Framework dependency
   • refer to this tutorial: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/communication-services/quickstarts/telemetry-application-insights?pivots=programming-language-csharp
3. Jaeger POC:
   • Visual Studio Dependency
   • .Net Core Framework dependency
   • Requires Docker to be installed
4. For the Flask POC:
   • Requires Docker to be installed
   • Run the following commands:
     • pip install opentelemetry-api
     • pip install opentelemetry-sdk
     • pip install opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger
     • pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask
     • pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests

Build and Test

• For the .Net POCs (App Insights, Geneva, Jaeger):
  1. For Jaeger only:
     • In a separate terminal, run docker run -p 16686:16686 -p 6831:6831/udp jaegertracing/all-in-one
  2. Open the solution file in the WeatherForecast Folder
  3. Click Run
• For the Flask application:
  1. In a separate terminal, run docker run -p 16686:16686 -p 6831:6831/udp jaegertracing/all-in-one
  2. In another terminal, run python main.py
  3. Access https://localhost:16686.com to view traces in Jaeger