Exploring OpenTelemetry Agent support in Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps now supports a managed OpenTelemetry agent. It's in public preview, and it allow you to use open-source standards to send your app's data without having to set up an OTLP collector yourself.

In this video, I explain how you can set up the agent in your Bicep template, where you can send your traces, metrics, and logs to, and what you can send to which collector.

0:00 Introduction
1:17 Where can we send our logs, metrics, and traces to?
2:30 Setting up the agent in our Container App Environment
4:08 What can't I do with the OpenTelemetry agent at the moment?
5:04 Setting up OpenTelemetry in my ASP.NET Core Web and API projects
6:54 Viewing our traces and logs in Application Insights
8:02 Other information about the preview
9:38 Wrap up

Grab the code for this video!

More information

Connect with me!

[westlestrest]

Hello, I am a bit confused about something. So is this setup basically the same as doing UseAzureMonitor(options => options.ConnectionString = Or is it different? Because I don't have what you had in my setup and I just have the connection string and it still works the same I way I think

[RoelJanken-ps]

This is still based on the API version "2023-11-02-preview". When you are using the latest "2024-03-01" you can not add appInsightsConfiguration and openTelemetryConfiguration.
I am still searching for the new way to do this with bicep