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How can I integrate end-to-end tracing in Kibana?

I want to add end-to-end tracing to my application and see that the Kibana dashboard provides a nice interface to visualize this data.

My issue: As far as I can tell viewing Elastic App search request is only built in but what if I want metrics for any request for my app, how can I integrate this?

The data I am mostly interested would be things like status codes returned at each step and how long it takes. I have done some research and found openTelemetry to be widely used for end-to-end tracing but I am unsure if it can be used in Kibana dashboard somehow.

Solution

  • The first step in this is to use the Elastic exporter. This will ensure that the Metrics/Traces/Logs get exported to ES indices.

    What you mention here is a classic case of TraceUI where you can look at dependencies between services, the timeline etc. This can be visualized with Jaeger UI