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Implementing Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector and implement distributed tracing for microservices observability.

45 minutes
platform-engineering/observability
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Lab Overview

This hands-on lab teaches you to implement distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry in your Kubernetes platform.

You'll learn to:

  • Deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector using Helm
  • Configure trace collection pipelines and exporters
  • Instrument applications for automatic trace generation
  • Deploy Jaeger as a tracing backend
  • Analyze distributed traces to understand service dependencies

Distributed tracing is essential for platform engineering teams to understand request flow and diagnose latency issues in microservices architectures.

What You'll Learn

Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes

Configure trace collection and export pipelines

Instrument applications for distributed tracing

Analyze traces using Jaeger UI

Prerequisites

kubernetes-fundamentals

helm-basics

observability-concepts

Technologies Covered

opentelemetrytracingjaegerobservabilitykubernetesmicroservicescnpe

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This lab is part of the Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer (CNPE) course

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