AspNetCore.Examples.OpenTelemetry

This project serves as an example of how to monitor an ASP.Net Core application via OpenTelemetry.

It makes use of the following technologies and projects:

• .NET 8.0
• ASP.NET Core 8.0
• Swashbuckle
• Docker
• Docker compose
• OpenTelemetry
• OpenTelemetry Collector to receive the OpenTelemetry data from the application and distribute it to the proper backends
• Grafana Tempo as the tracing backend
• Prometheus as the metrics backend
• Grafana Loki as the logs backend
• Grafana as the observability UI

How to run

Simply run the docker compose project from visual studio, or from a terminal by executing docker compose up in the root folder.

Access the web api at http://localhost:8080/swagger and try to create traces, metrics and logs by calling the corresponding endpoints.

Access grafana at http://localhost:3001 and check that the traces, metrics and logs have been registered.