Chapter three: Hands-on OpenTelemetry

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

Procedures