Hands-On OpenTelemetry, Docker, and K8s
Summary
This workshop provided hands-on experience with the following concepts:
- How to deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector on a Linux host.
- How to instrument a .NET application with the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry .NET.
- How to “dockerize” a .NET application and instrument it with the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry .NET.
- How to deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector in a Kubernetes cluster using Helm.
- How to customize the collector configuration and troubleshoot an issue.
To see how other languages and environments are instrumented with OpenTelemetry, explore the Splunk OpenTelemetry Examples GitHub repository .
To run this workshop on your own in the future, refer back to these instructions and use the Splunk4Rookies - Observability workshop template in Splunk Show to provision an EC2 instance.