wipac-telemetry

WIPAC Telemetry: Monitoring/Tracing Applications, Supporting Infrastructures, and Services

Tracing Tools

Configuration

Most of the major functionality is configurable via environment variables. Traces are not exported by default.

Environment Variables

Name	Type/Options	Description	Null Case	Example & Notes
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT	string	address of collector service	no traces exported	https://my.url.aq/traces/go/here
WIPACTEL_EXPORT_STDOUT	True or False	whether to print the traces	no traces printed
WIPACTEL_LOGGING_LEVEL	debug, info, etc.	minimum logging level for WIPACTEL actions	warning (or root logger's level if that's higher)
WIPACTEL_SERVICE_NAME_PREFIX	string	prefix for the tracing service's name	""	mou (results in a service called "mou/server" instead of just "server")

Running with Local Collector Service UI (Jaegar)

1. cd examples/telemetry-server/jaeger-production && ./start-jaeger-production.sh
2. Open new terminal:
3. export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4318/v1/traces
4. Run script(s) and/or module(s)
5. Go to http://localhost:16686/