OpenTelemetry

Analyze your software performance by instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data.

Installation Instructions

  1. Install the OpenTelemetry module.

    For Amazon Linux, Alma/Rocky Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL:

    $ yum install nginx-plus-module-otel

    For Debian and Ubuntu:

    $ apt-get install nginx-plus-module-otel

    For SLES:

    $ zypper install nginx-plus-module-otel

    For Alpine:

    $ apk add nginx-plus-module-otel

    Note: the OpenTelemetry module cannot be installed on RHEL/Oracle Linux/AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux 7, Ubuntu 18.04, and Amazon Linux 2.

  2. Put the load_module directive in the top‑level (“main”) context of NGINX Plus configuration file, nginx.conf:

    load_module modules/ngx_otel_module.so;

  3. Reload NGINX Plus to enable the module:

    $ nginx -t && nginx -s reload

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