otelstarter

Otel GO Starter

A simple means of getting the Open Telemetry global instrumentation configure and started

Get Started

Using the Otel GO Starter allows for easy configuration of the global open telemetry instrumentations.

> go get github.com/MovieStoreGuy/otel-go-starter@latest

Then all that is required to do within main is the following:

package main

import (
    "context"

    otelstarter "github.com/MovieStoreGuy/otel-go-starter"
)

func main() {
    ctx, done := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
    defer done()

    defer otelstarter.Start(ctx).Shutdown()

    // Start the remainder of the application
}

Further Examples

To show working examples of working with otel go starter feel free to look at the examples folder on further ideas on how to get started.