Tracing with Open Telemetry and Jaeger

Prerequisites

To follow up with this guide, make sure you have the following installed

• Docker

• Docker Compose

How to run

• Clone the repo by running git clone <repo_url>

• A Makefile has been provided to make starting up the services easier so just run make up to create the dummy data in the database and start up docker compose

• You should see command line output similar to the image below

• Navigate to http://localhost5000 on your browser to view the website

• Now head over to the Jaeger UI by navigating to http://localhost:16686/search to view traces for the application

• Finally, kill the running processes with ctrl+c and run make down to remove the containers created.

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