Getting started

To quickly get started with Rotel you can leverage the pre-built Docker images. Alternatively, you can download a binary from the releases page.

Running Rotel

Execute Rotel with the following arguments:

docker run -ti -p 4317-4318:4317-4318 streamfold/rotel --debug-log traces --exporter blackhole

Rotel is now listening on localhost:4317 (gRPC) and localhost:4318 (HTTP). To debug metrics or logs, add an additional --debug-log metrics|logs.

Verify

We'll use the telemetrygen project to verify Rotel is working. Send OTLP traces to Rotel and verify that it is receiving data:

go install github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/cmd/telemetrygen@latest

telemetrygen traces --otlp-insecure --duration 5s

Check the output from Rotel and you should see several "Received traces" log lines.

Next

Check out the full configuration documentation for connecting an exporter and testing end-to-end delivery.