OpenTelemetry Tutorial: Instrumenting Nginx And Ingress Controllers

Dont miss part 1 of this video, "Mastering Nginx Instrumentation with OpenTelemetry", here:    • Mastering Nginx Instrumentation with OpenT...   Today’s episode provides a detailed tutorial on how to instrument your Ingress controller and Nginx web servers using OpenTelemetry. This episode is part of our ongoing OpenTelemetry series, which explores various observability techniques and tools. What You'll Learn: 1. Introduction to Instrumentation: Learn the key details about auto-instrumenting your web server using the OpenTelemetry Operator. 2. Technical Environment Setup: Get a walkthrough of the environment required for this tutorial. 3. Step-by-Step Guide: Instrumentation of Ingress Controllers Instrumentation of Nginx Community Web Servers in a Kubernetes Cluster How to adjust Nginx deployments and ensure proper telemetry data collection Tutorial Overview: In this hands-on tutorial, we’ll cover: Prerequisites such as a K8s cluster, CertManager, Otel Operator, and more. The Instrumentation CRD definitions and annotations to get started. Real-time instrumentation of web servers and Ingress controllers. 🔗 Additional Links Dynatrace Trial: https://bit.ly/3KxWDvY Nginx Otel module: https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-otel Nginx documentation: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-gu... Nginx Ingress : https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-... OpenTelemetry Operator:https://github.com/open-telemetry/ope... Webserver module parameters: https://github.com/open-telemetry/ope... GitHub tutorial: https://dt-url.net/nginx_tutorial Blog : https://isitobservable.io 📖 Chapters 📖 ----------------------------- 00:00 Introduction 02:59 Environment setup 04:17 Tutorial: requirements 10:28 Tutorial: Ingress controller instrumentation 14:05 Tutorial: Webserver instrumentation 22:49 Conclusion 🔬 Want to learn more about tools that the cloud-native pros use? Check out the full list of my favs over here on this YouTube playlist:    • OpenTelemetry   Check out ALL my observability secrets, tips, and tricks in my blog: https://isitobservable.io/ 👉✅ Stay connected with me! Twitter:   / isitobservable   LinkedIn:   / isitobservable   IsItObservable is powered by Dynatrace’s own developer relations team. Subscribe to get observability reviews, tips and tricks, and tutorials tested by cloud-native experts. I review, test, and share results to help you succeed with platform engineering and observability.