FAQ: OpenTelemetry & Distributed tracing

Product Feature Requests & Feedback
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Hi @Olu,
I have successfully set NewRelic via Instrumentation, but I wonder if I could get more traces and insights by configuring distributed tracing like explained here.

Thanks

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hi @scelentano and welcome to the community!

is there any specific information you are looking to get from the traces?

In general, I would recommend to wait for our September release. As we will release support for OpenTelemetry and the OpenTelemetry traces will contain much more insights.

Sonja

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Hello Team,

Is there any news about the OpenTelemetry September release?

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hi! yes - it’s here: OpenTelemetry Integration with Tyk Gateway

Available since Tyk 5.2 - release notes :partying_face:

Just a word of caution: please wait for the 5.2.1 release coming soon to use in production, as we have found (and fixed) a performance issue linked to the OTel support, see here: Increasing memory usage after 5.2 upgrade - #16 by scelentano

UPDATE: 5.2.1 has been released: Tyk Gateway 5.2 Release Notes

Let us know what you think!

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Dears,

do you have any other open-source solution that is supported by open telemetry?
As Jaeger is deprecated last July we only have Dynatrace, Datadog, and New Relic which are closed source.

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hi @mohamed.hamdy!

Jaeger hasn’t been de-supported, only the Jaeger exporter. I have noticed we need to update our Jaeger documentation.

Here are the information you need:

:warning: Jaeger exporter has been deprecated on otel collector v0.85.0 (latest).

If you have your collector config with something like

exporters:
  jaeger:
    endpoint: jaeger-all-in-one:14250
    tls:
      insecure: true

you need to replace the exporter type to otlp since Jaeger supports the protocol by default

exporters:
  otlp:
    endpoint: jaeger-all-in-one:4317
    tls:
      insecure: true

Hope this help, I will make sure we update our documentation as well!
Sonja

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