otel-golang-meetup

https://www.meetup.com/stl-go/events/293596247/

The presentation deck with all the links and instructions

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kElmZfLCjW8kcn5hS2y_Xx5HWIQKkeAWIBZNDV6ILUo

Instructions to get started and follow along

Opentelemetry collector, Prometheus and Zipkin running locally as a docker images

1. Run docker from otel-docker directory: This will start otel-collector, Zipkin and Prometheus

   # from this directory
   docker-compose up

2. Run app

   # from the app directory
   go run .

3. Teardown the docker images

   # from this directory
   docker-compose down

Additional instructions are at otel-docker/README.md

Add instrumentation to your App and run

Run the app with the following required environment variables

  export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT = "0.0.0.0:4317"
  export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME = "shipping-service"
  export OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES = deployment.environment=production

  go run .
  curl http://127.0.0.1:9100/shipping/11