Lightning Talk: Get Started with OTel in 15 minutes - The JavaScript Journey
summary
Demo shows a Node.js app auto-instrumented to send OTLP traces through a local OTel Collector into Jaeger using Docker Compose, with live logs and UI verification of traces; collector config adds three processors and proves deleting host and user-agent attributes and inserting deployment.environment.name=local works as expected, plus advice to always include a batch processor and ordering matters; repo QR shared at the end. auto-instrument a Node.js app OTLP receiver → Jaeger exporter OTel Collector processors: resource, attributes, batch
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chapters (6)
- 0:00OpenTelemetry in JavaScript
- 1:24Demo and telemetry
- 3:31Auto-instrument Node.js
- 4:57OpenTelemetry collector setup
- 7:30Collector processors for traces
- 10:02Resources and next steps
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