Overview

This self-guided lab is intended to provide a hands-on introduction to Open Telemetry (OTel) concepts and their implementation. During this lab, attendees will utilize a UDF blueprint deploy the lab infrastructure shown below to:

• Gain insight into how applications are instrumented utilizing the Open Telemetry sdk
• Configure telemetry streaming of metrics from F5 BIG-IP utilizing the OTel collector gateway

As illustrated above, the lab environment consists of the following:

• F5 BIG-IP(s) providing L4/L7 ADC Services and utilizing F5 Telemetry Streaming (TS) to stream telemetry data to an OTel collector gateway
• NGINX Plus providing L4/L7 ADC Services and utilizing Open Telemetry to stream telemetry data to an OTel collector gateway
• Sample Application consisting of a simple python frontend application and a Redis backend database
• Open Telemetry Collector configured to receive and proxy telemetry from both the BIG-IP and sample applications to the observability platforms
• Jaeger providing visibility for application tracing
• Prometheus providing visibility for BIG-IP metrics

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Go to Exercise 1 - App instrumentation walk-through and troubleshooting

Go to Exercise 2 - Exporting NGINX Plus spans and metrics using Open Telemetry

Go to Exercise 3 - Exporting BIG-IP metrics using the OTel consumer

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