Enable lueur Observability

This guide will walk you sending traces to an Open Telemetry aware stack.

Prerequisites

• Install lueur

  If you haven’t installed lueur yet, follow the installation instructions.

Send Open Telemetry Traces to Jaeger

• Start a local Jaeger instance

  Follow the Jaeger instructions to deploy a local instance

• Start demo application provided by lueur

  lueur demo run
  

• Start the proxy with a basic latency fault

  lueur --with-otel \  # (1)!
      run \
      --with-latency \ 
      --latency-distribution normal \
      --latency-mean 300 \
      --latency-stddev 40
  

  1. Configure lueur to generate and send Open Telemetry traces

• Send a request to the demo application routed via the proxy

  curl -x http://localhost:8080 http://localhost:7070
  

• View lueur traces

  Open your browser and view your lueur traces.

  In the following snippet, you can quickly notice the ~308ms delay on the poll-read.