Monitoring .NET applications from OpenTelemetry Demo on Instana
You can automatically instrument a .NET
application with the OpenTelemetry Demo and send metrics and traces
to Instana through the Instana agent. You can view these metrics,
trace, and logs data in the Instana UI. See the following example
for instrumenting a .NET application (cart service)
with the OpenTelemetry Collector .NET agent:
The cart service stores user shopping carts in Valkey. To start the OpenTelemetry integration, see the following sample steps:
Prerequisites
Before you begin, make sure that the following technologies are installed:
- Docker
- Docker Compose v2.0.0 or later
Deploying the application locally
To deploy the application, run the following commands at the root directory of the project:
git clone https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo.git
cd opentelemetry-demo/
Run the following command to build the cart service:
dotnet restore
dotnet build
You can also use Docker Compose to build the cart application:
docker compose build cart
Checking the metrics in Instana UI
You can see the OpenTelemetry data such as metrics, trace, and log in the Instana UI. For more information, see Viewing the OpenTelemetry metrics data in the Instana UI generated by OpenTelemetry Demo application.