Generating Traces

By default microservice demo is not configured to send tracing data to the ADOT collector. Run the following commands to enable it:

sed -i 's/#//' kubernetes/backend/*.yaml

Then we apply these changes to our deployments

kubectl apply -f kubernetes/backend/

Adding a new Employee

Now that traces are enabled, let’s head back to our application and add a new employee. Let’s get our front-end URL:

echo http://${SERVICE_IP}/

Open that URL in your web browser, and create a new employee. We’ll name our employee “George Burdell” who’s occupation is “Software Engineer”. Screenshot of employee creation

After clicking the ‘ADD EMPLOYEE’ button, you should get a success model with the Employee ID. Let’s copy that employee Id. Screenshot of employee creation success

Then we’ll close the modal, and copy that Employee ID into the Get Employee field. Screenshot of employee lookup

After clicking ‘GET EMPLOYEE’ we’ll get a modal with the Name & Occupation we provided earlier. Screenshot of employee lookup success

Note: If you want to customize your employee. You’ll need to provide an occupation that is listed in the initdb.sql file.