Implementing Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry
Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector and implement distributed tracing for microservices observability.
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
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This lab is part of the Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer (CNPE) course
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