I'm currently working at an organization that uses an ELK stack for logging. I'm interested in integrating OpenTelemetry into our Spring Boot applications. Can anyone guide me on how to do this? Specifically, I'm curious if OpenTelemetry is only for tracing, or if it's possible to include logs along with traces.
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I recommend checking out the official OpenTelemetry documentation to understand what it offers. Also, consider if ELK is the best stack for you—it's quite heavy and might take up more time and effort to set up properly.
If your organization is reevaluating its observability strategy, look into Clickhouse. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it can be much cheaper to run compared to Elasticsearch.
To get started, you'll want to include the OpenTelemetry Java agent in your Spring Boot app. If you're using the Elastic Agent, you can configure it as an OpenTelemetry Collector to send the traces and metrics to your integration server.
For integrating logs, you'll typically need to set up your logging framework accordingly,
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