Collect Data with Standards
Introduction #
For this workshop, we’ll be doing things that only a central tools or administration would do.
The workshop uses scripts to help with steps that aren’t part of the focus of this workshop – like how to change a kubernetes app, or start an application from a host.
Tip
It can be useful to review what the scripts are doing.
So along the way it is advised to run cat <filename> from time to time to see what that step just did.
The workshop won’t call this out, so do it when you are curious.
We’ll also be running some scripts to simulate data that we want to deal with.
A simplified version of the architecture (leaving aside the specifics of kubernetes) will look something like the following:
- The App sends metrics and traces to the Otel Collector
- The Otel Collector also collects metrics of its own
- The Otel Collector adds metadata to its own metrics and data that passes through it
- The OTel Gateway offers another opportunity to add metadata
Let’s start by deploying the gateway.