Chapter 7–OpenTelemetry Instrumentation

What OpenTelemetry Provides

How gRPC Instrumentation Works

Building gRPC with OpenTelemetry

Although this process involves several CMake options and external dependencies, it only needs to be done once. After that, the resulting gRPC build can be reused across projects. The goal of this section is to walk through the setup step by step, producing a gRPC installation ready for production instrumentation.

Building opentelemetry-cpp

Building gRpc Against Opentelemetry-cpp

Rebuilding Project against gRPC with OpenTelemetry Support

Instrumenting Client/Server

MetricLib

Initializing OpenTelemetry Metrics

Viewing Metrics

Understanding Histogram Metrics

Key Client Metrics

Key Server Metrics

Viewing Metrics in Prometheus

Visualizing Metrics with Grafana

Install and Configure Grafana

Summary