Deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector along with a set of backend services.

Checkout the Railway tutorial for more information.

OpenTelemetry Collector

The collector is a vendor-agnostic way to receive, process and export telemetry data.

It is deployed with a configuration file that enables it to send data to the complementary backend services.

The zpages extension is enabled, allowing you to connect to the debug UI from your browser. More information on the extension can be found here.

Documentation

• Collector Documentation
• Configuration File Documentation

Port map for reference:

- "1888"   # pprof extension
- "8888"   # Prometheus metrics exposed by the collector
- "8889"   # Prometheus exporter metrics
- "13133" # health_check extension
- "4317"   # OTLP gRPC receiver
- "4318"   # OTLP HTTP receiver
- "55679" # zpages extension

Zipkin

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system. It receives data from the Otel Collector on port 9411.

• Zipkin Documentation

Jaeger

Jaeger is a distributed tracing system. It receives data from the Otel Collector on port 4317.

• Jaeger Documentation

Prometheus

Prometheus is a systems monitoring and alerting toolkit. It receives data from the Otel Collector on port 8889.

• Prometheus Documentation