This plugin enable the open telemetry feature on the Kong gateway to feed the Elastic Application Performance Monitoring solution. This plugin written in Go, leverage the Elastic APM Go agent.
To set up this plugin please follow the instructions of the APM Go agent, and refers to the environment variables setup, as there are mapped from the plugin configuration (to lower case).
Kong or Kong API Gateway is a cloud-native, platform-agnostic, scalable API Gateway distinguished for its high performance and extensibility via plugins.
By providing functionality for proxying, routing, load balancing, health checking, authentication, Kong serves as the central layer for orchestrating microservices or conventional API traffic with ease.
Kong runs natively on Kubernetes thanks to its official Kubernetes Ingress Controller.
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Build the image:
docker-compose buildRun the image:
docker-compose upTest the service:
curl -v http://localhost:8000/helloYou can now check APM metrics in Kibana: http://localhost:5601/app/apm