Tutorials¶

Two walkthroughs, in order. Both are meant to be typed out and run rather than skimmed; each ends with something working that you can look at.

• Getting started — a tracer provider in a dozen lines, registered with the global OpenTelemetry API and shut down cleanly. About five minutes.
• Export all three signals to a collector you can watch — traces, metrics and logs to a local collector, then reading its output to confirm all three arrived carrying the same trace ID. About fifteen minutes, and needs Docker or Podman.

When you want something else¶

A tutorial teaches; it is not the fastest route to a specific answer.

• To solve a particular problem, start from the how-to guides.
• To look up a key, an option, a default or an error, start from the reference.
• To understand why the module is shaped the way it is, start from the explanation pages.