OT Collector Metrics Exporter Example

This example shows how to export metrics to the OT collector.

The source files of this example are available here.

Installation

pip install opentelemetry-api
pip install opentelemetry-sdk
pip install opentelemetry-ext-otcollector

Run the Example

Before running the example, it’s necessary to run the OpenTelemetry collector and Prometheus. The docker folder contains the a docker-compose template with the configuration of those services.

pip install docker-compose
cd docker
docker-compose up

Now, the example can be executed:

python collector.py

The metrics are available in the Prometheus dashboard at http://localhost:9090/graph, look for the “requests” metric on the list.

Useful links

• OpenTelemetry

• OTCollector

• opentelemetry.metrics package

• OpenTelemetry Collector Exporter