OpenTelemetry Collector Exporter for web and node

This module provides exporter for web and node to be used with opentelemetry-collector.

Installation

npm install --save @opentelemetry/exporter-collector

Usage in Web

import { SimpleSpanProcessor } from '@opentelemetry/tracing';
import { WebTracerProvider } from '@opentelemetry/web';
import { CollectorExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-collector'

const collectorOptions = {
  url: '<opentelemetry-collector-url>' // url is optional and can be omitted - default is http://localhost:55678/v1/trace
};

const provider = new WebTracerProvider();
const exporter = new CollectorExporter(collectorOptions);
provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));

provider.register();

Usage in Node

const { BasicTracerProvider, SimpleSpanProcessor } = require('@opentelemetry/tracing');
const { CollectorExporter } =  require('@opentelemetry/exporter-collector');

const collectorOptions = {
  serviceName: 'basic-service',
  url: '<opentelemetry-collector-url>' // url is optional and can be omitted - default is http://localhost:55678/v1/trace
};

const provider = new BasicTracerProvider();
const exporter = new CollectorExporter(collectorOptions);
provider.addSpanProcessor(new SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter));

provider.register();

Running opentelemetry-collector locally to see the traces

1. Go to examples/basic-tracer-node
2. run npm run collector:docker:ot
3. Open page at http://localhost:9411/zipkin/ to observe the traces

Useful links

• For more information on OpenTelemetry, visit: https://opentelemetry.io/
• For more about OpenTelemetry JavaScript: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
• For help or feedback on this project, join us on gitter

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.