Open Telemetry blueprint

[zimny]

The task is to create an end to end open telemetry blue print. Some cloud based (AWS) dummy application with OT included (consider Jeager).

[zimny]

The result we want to get is to be able to analyse how it works and potentially how to start implementing Open Telemetry in our projects.

[zimny]

Application should consist of:

• react.js dummy application with OT plugin
• simple nodejs backend deployed into AWS with OT instrumentation and AWS-SDK in use.
• some calls from the backend into saas tools from AWS (e.g. getting item from dynamodb table)
• some calls into AWS RDS postgresql
• jaeger can be deployed as a all-in-one docker image with minimal costs associated (ECS fargate single task acceptable)
• documented all the gotchas and tips while integrating OT instrumentation

you can consider you can consider https://github.com/nearform/devops-recipes/tree/main/samples/3-tier as a starting point.

[zimny]

see also: https://github.com/nearform/open-telemetry-guide

[zimny]

as an outcome of this work some blog post around open telemetry and jaeger would be nice to have

[zimny]

also: please do not focus only on tracing. Understanding how metrics and logs are supported by OT is a must.

[simoneb]

about logs, note that the JS SDK doesn't have that yet https://github.com/Vunovati/pino-opentelemetry-transport/pull/1

[zimny]

Task is in progres. Repository: https://github.com/nearform/otlp-blueprint/

[simoneb]

@zimny I moved the issue to this repo as it's where it make sense it lives. I also removed the assignees as neither are working on it atm

[simoneb]

@zimny is this issue good to be closed so we can use more specific issues to track follow up activities on this?

[zimny]

sure, we can close it and keep the work in specific tickets. Cheers!