Now that you’ve learned the fundamentals of OpenTelemetry, it’s time to get some practical experience. In this chapter, you follow a workshop where you learn how to instrument a basic application in your preferred language. Then, you see how that instrumentation produces useful telemetry data in New Relic.
Objectives
In this workshop, you:
- Instrument an application with OpenTelemetry in your preferred programming language
- View your data in New Relic
Requirements
- Create a free New Relic account
- Install Docker
- Install Docker Compose
Procedures
1. Workshop introduction
Workshop introduction
.NET OpenTelemetry workshop
Instrument a .NET application with OpenTelemetry
Python OpenTelemetry workshop
Instrument a Python application with OpenTelemetry
2. View a summary of your data
View a summary of your data in New Relic
3. View your traces
View your traces in New Relic
4. View error traces
View error traces in New Relic