Deployments

To collect trace data in production environments, it is necessary to run the OpenTelemetry collector somewhere in your network that will be accessible from both your frontend and backend. In a Kubernetes deploys, it could be run as a sidecar container. In DigitalOcean deploys, you may need to deploy the otel/opentelemetry-collector-dev:0.25.0 docker image as a separate droplet.

Compatibility

• opentelemetry-js - 0.22.0
• otel-collector - 0.25.0
• opentelemetry-erlang - ~> 0.6

Geometrics uses opentelemetry-js version 0.22.0. The @opentelemetry/exporter-collector at the time of writing is only compatible with otel-collector versions 0.25.0 or earlier. Some breaking change in the otel-collector more recent than that version causes the CollectorTraceExporter to receive 404 status codes when posting traces.