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Kubernetes OpenTelemetry#

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This is an enablement project created by the Center of Excellence - Enablement Team at Dynatrace.

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Lab Overview#

During this hands-on training, we’ll learn how to capture logs, traces, and metrics from Kubernetes using OpenTelemetry and ship them to Dynatrace for analysis. This will demonstrate how to use Dynatrace with OpenTelemetry; without any Dynatrace native components installed on the Kubernetes cluster (Operator, OneAgent, ActiveGate, etc.).

Lab tasks:

  1. OpenTelemetry Logs

    • Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector as a DaemonSet
    • Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector as a Deployment
    • Configure OpenTelemetry Collector service pipeline for log enrichment
    • Query and visualize logs in Dynatrace using DQL

  2. OpenTelemetry Traces

    • Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector as a Deployment
    • Configure OpenTelemetry Collector service pipeline for span enrichment
    • Analyze application reliability via traces in Dynatrace

  3. OpenTelemetry Metrics

    • Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector as a DaemonSet
    • Configure OpenTelemetry Collector service pipeline for metric enrichment
    • Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector as a Deployment
    • Configure OpenTelemetry Collector service pipeline for metric enrichment
    • Query and visualize metrics in Dynatrace using DQL

  4. OpenTelemetry Capstone

    • Deploy 4 OpenTelemetry Collectors
    • Configure OpenTelemetry Collector service pipeline for data enrichment
    • Analyze metrics, traces, and logs in Dynatrace
    • Observe OpenTelemetry Collector health in Dynatrace

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Continue#

In the next section, we'll review the prerequisites for this lab needed before launching our Codespaces instance.