➕ OpenTelemetry Demo with Elastic Observability

The following guide describes how to setup the OpenTelemetry demo with Elastic Observability using Docker compose or Kubernetes.

Docker compose

Start a free trial on Elastic Cloud and copy the endpoint and secretToken from the Elastic APM setup instructions in your Kibana.
Open the file src/otelcollector/otelcol-config-extras.yml in an editor and replace the following two placeholders:
- YOUR_APM_ENDPOINT_WITHOUT_HTTPS_PREFIX: your Elastic APM endpoint (without https:// prefix)
- YOUR_APM_SECRET_TOKEN: your Elastic APM secret token.
Start the demo with the following command from the repository's root directory:
```
docker-compose up -d
```

Kubernetes

Prerequisites:

Create a Kubernetes cluster. There are no specific requirements, so you can create a local one, or use a managed Kubernetes cluster, such as GKE, EKS, or AKS.
Set up kubectl.
Set up Helm.

Start the Demo

Setup Elastic Observability on Elastic Cloud.
Create a secret in Kubernetes with the following command.
```
kubectl create secret generic elastic-secret \
  --from-literal=elastic_apm_endpoint='YOUR_APM_ENDPOINT_WITHOUT_HTTPS_PREFIX' \
  --from-literal=elastic_apm_secret_token='YOUR_APM_SECRET_TOKEN'
```
Don't forget to replace
- YOUR_APM_ENDPOINT_WITHOUT_HTTPS_PREFIX: your Elastic APM endpoint (without https:// prefix)
- YOUR_APM_SECRET_TOKEN: your Elastic APM secret token

Execute the following commands to deploy the OpenTelemetry demo to your Kubernetes cluster:

# switch to the kubernetes/elastic-helm directory
cd kubernetes/elastic-helm

# add the open-telemetry Helm repostiroy
helm repo add open-telemetry https://open-telemetry.github.io/opentelemetry-helm-charts

# deploy the demo through helm install
helm install -f values.yaml my-otel-demo open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo

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➕ OpenTelemetry Demo with Elastic Observability

Docker compose

Kubernetes

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