The Ultimate Guide to Distributed Tracing: Monitor your Rails app using Opentelemetry, Jaeger and New Relic Agent

June 25, 2023 · 467 words · 3 min · opentelemetry gsoc

In this blog post we will learn how to instrument a Rails app using OpenTelemetry and send traces to Jaeger and New Relic simultaneously. For additional information on OpenTelemetry, you can refer to my previous post. Furthermore, basics are adequately covered in the OTEL docs Without further ado, let’s dive right into it. Installing Required Gems Add these gems to your Gemfile gem "opentelemetry-sdk" gem "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp" gem "opentelemetry-instrumentation-all" Once added bundle install