1. Verify Agent Configuration

15 minutes

Welcome! In this section, we’ll begin with a fully functional OpenTelemetry setup that includes both an Agent and a Gateway.

We’ll start by quickly reviewing their configuration files to get familiar with the overall structure and to highlight key sections that control the telemetry pipeline.

Tip

Throughout the workshop, you’ll work with multiple terminal windows. To keep things organized, give each terminal a unique name or color. This will help you easily recognize and switch between them during the exercises.

We will refer to these terminals as: Agent, Gateway, Loadgen, and Test.

Exercise

  1. Create your first terminal window and name it Agent. Navigate to the directory for the first exercise [WORKSHOP]/1-agent-gateway and verify that the required files have been generated:

    bash 
    cd 1-agent-gateway
ls -l

  2. You should see the following files in the directory. If not, re-run the setup-workshop.sh script as described in the Pre-requisites section:

    text 
    .
├── agent.yaml
└── gateway.yaml