Exploring the OpenTelemetry Collector

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Prometheus

Prometheus is one of the primary monitoring solutions. It works on a pull-based model: Prometheus scrapes compatible endpoints of your application(s) and stores them internally.

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Grafana

The above is an excellent first step, but there's more than printing to the console. We will expose the metrics to be scraped by a regular Prometheus instance; we can add a Grafana dashboard to visualize them. While it may seem pointless, bear with it, as it's only a stepstone.

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