Dash0 Observability Demo

Observability for Platform Engineering

This repository contains hands-on demos demonstrating skills to set up, manage, and maintain observability tools and practices using OpenTelemetry and open standards.

Prerequisites

Before running any demos, configure your Dash0 credentials:

1. Copy the environment template:

   cp .env.template .env

2. Edit .env with your Dash0 credentials:

   # Get these values from your Dash0 organization settings
   DASH0_AUTH_TOKEN="your_actual_auth_token"
   DASH0_DATASET="default"

3. Update endpoints if needed (defaults are for EU region):

   DASH0_ENDPOINT_OTLP_GRPC_HOSTNAME="ingress.eu-west-1.aws.dash0.com"
   DASH0_ENDPOINT_OTLP_GRPC_PORT="4317"

Demos

Platform Observability with Perses and Dash0

Complete observability stack with modern visualization tools. Features OpenTelemetry collector integration with Dash0 cloud platform, Perses dashboards for platform infrastructure metrics, and distributed tracing with Jaeger. Includes a Spring Boot platform request service with custom metrics, structured logging, and database integration.

Kubernetes Observability Stack with OpenTelemetry

Production-ready Kubernetes observability with OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation. Features OpenTelemetry Operator for automatic instrumentation of Go and Java applications, complete telemetry pipeline with Prometheus, Jaeger, and OpenSearch, and Perses dashboard-as-code capabilities. Includes multi-service demo applications with PostgreSQL and MySQL backends.