Collect Data with Standards

10 minutes  

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:

Architecture Architecture

  • 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.