Set env vars or config file

Application level Tracing

For application-level tracing, you can use the OpenTelemetry SDKs integrated with your application. These SDKs will automatically collect and forward traces to the Central Collector.

To see how you can instrument your applications like FastAPI, NextJS, Node.js, Spring etc. you can check out the Application Monitoring section available at the start of this onboarding or you can checkout this documentation.

Configure the OpenTelemetry SDK

# Set env vars or config file
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="http://otel-collector.kubelet-otel.svc.cluster.local:4318/"

For application-level traces and metrics, configure your application to use the kube-dns name of the Central Collector you set up earlier.