OpenTelemetry Collector Demo

This example defines a simple observability stack made up of an OpenTelemetry Collector instance connected to a Jaeger and a Prometheus backend. Since this will mostly be used for debugging purposes, the collector is also configured to export any received telemetry to the console.

This example is based on the excellent demo available in the opentelemetry-collector-contrib repository.

The example uses docker compose. In order to use it, make a local copy of this repository and run the following command:

docker compose up

You should then be able to see the following backends:

• Jaeger: http://localhost:16686
• Prometheus: http://localhost:9090

For a more full example that uses this stack please refer to the original example, or to OpenTelemetry::Guides::Exporter which uses the Perl SDK.