An OpenTelemetry backend in a Docker image.

The grafana/otel-lgtm Docker image is an open source backend for OpenTelemetry that’s intended for development, demo, and testing environments. If you are looking for a production-ready, out-of-the box solution to monitor applications and minimize MTTR (mean time to resolution) with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, you should try Grafana Cloud Application Observability.

• Blog post: An OpenTelemetry backend in a Docker image: Introducing grafana/otel-lgtm

The Docker image is available on Docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/otel-lgtm

./run-lgtm.sh

There's no need to configure anything: The Docker image works with OpenTelemetry's defaults.

# Not needed as these are the defaults in OpenTelemetry:
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=grpc
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4317

Log in to http://localhost:3000 with user admin and password admin.

cd docker/
docker build . -t grafana/otel-lgtm

Run the example REST service:

./run-example.sh

Generate traffic:

./generate-traffic.sh

The example apps are in the examples/ directory. Each example has a run.sh script to start the app.

Every example implements a rolldice service, which returns a random number between 1 and 6.

Each example uses a different application port (to be able to run all applications at the same time).

• Metrics, Logs, Traces and Profiles in Grafana: https://github.com/grafana/intro-to-mltp