OpenTelemetry
Overview
OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. Use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help analyze software’s performance and behavior.
We recommend using the OpenTelemetry HTTP exporter to send logs, metrics and traces to Apica Ascent. We also support Prometheus exporter.
OTLP Http exporter
Encoding type must be JSON for logs and traces. We currently only support protobuf encoding for metrics. When using metrics_endpoint with proto encoding, remove the compression setting.
Prometheus remote write exporter
Prometheus Remote Write Exporter can be used to send OpenTelemetry metrics to Prometheus remote write compatible backends
Apica Ascent implements a Prometheus remote write backend so metric data from open telemetry collectors can be sent to Apica Ascent with a simple configuration as described below.
Enable the prometheusremorewrite exporter in your open telemetry configuration yaml
Specify the Apica Ascent cluster endpoint to send the remote write data. Apica Ascent implements automatic retention tiering to object storage for all your opentelemetry metrics data giving you infinite retention and scale with zero storage overheads as your metrics needs grow.
The endpoint is authenticated and requires bearer token to be sent as part of the request
Here's a full configuration example below with TLS enabled.
if you are using OpenTelemetry on AWS, remove the "wal:" section below
Scraping Prometheus Metrics
In the OpenTelemetry config file, you can include a scrape section to scrape data from Prometheus endpoints. You can subsequently push that to a remote Prometheus compatible write endpoint using instructions from the section above.
Language Integrations
Java
If you are writing a Java-based application and want to enable OpenTelemetry for instrumenting your application logs, traces, and metrics, you can use the OpenTelemetry Java agent Jar file to attach to your existing Java applications.
The Jar file can be found here - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation#about
the Prometheus metrics options create a pull metric instance that should be scraped by an external Prometheus compatible instance
otel.service_name
<User defined>
Give a service name to group your OpenTelemetry data traces under this service name
otel.traces.exporter
otlp
otel.exporter.otlp.endpoint
https://<Apica Ascent ENDPOINT>
Apica Ascent OpenTelemetry endpoint
javaagent
<PATH TO JAR>/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar
OpenTelemetry agent Jar file
otel.metrics.exporter
prometheus
otel.exporter.prometheus.port
Default port is 9464
otel.exporter.prometheus.host
Default is 0.0.0.0
When using TLS please ensure you have the CA cert of the Apica Ascent environment installed in the JVM Cert store. Instructions can be found here - https://connect2id.com/blog/importing-ca-root-cert-into-jvm-trust-store
Example Petclinic app with open telemetry integration
You can use our freely available petclinc java application for opentelmetry integration testing. Just launch our free container as below and point it to the Apica service IP/DNS
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