OpenTelemetry tracepusher

Trace anything with OpenTelemetry!

Generate and push OpenTelemetry Trace data to an endpoint in JSON format.

Watch: Tracepusher in Action

Want to do a similar thing with logs? Check out logpusher.

Uses

• DevTools .har file to OpenTelemetry Converter
• Trace Kubernetes Jobs and CronJobs with OpenTelemetry
• Trace CICD Pipelines with OpenTelemetry
• Trace shell scripts with OpenTelemetry
• Trace Helm with tracepusher
• Use tracepusher in a CICD system
• Trace anything with OpenTelemetry

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Quick Start

Tracepusher is available as:

• Standalone binaries
• Python script
• Docker image
• Kubernetes Operator

Download the binary from the releases page then run:

./tracepusher --endpoint http(s)://OTEL-COLLECTOR-ENDPOINT:4318 \
--service-name service_name \
--span-name span_name \
--duration SPAN_TIME_IN_SECONDS

Advanced Usage

See the following pages for advanced usage and reference information for the flags:

• Standalone binary usage
• Docker usage
• Python usage
• CI system usage
• Complex (Multi Span) Traces
• Span time shifting
• Span attributes and span attribute types
• Span events
• Span status
• Insecure flag
• Start time flag
• tracepusher flag reference pages