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OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for .NET

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Install OpenTelemetry .NET Automatic Instrumentation and instrument your .NET application using the provided Shell scripts.

Download the bash script:

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-instrumentation/v1.0.2/otel-dotnet-auto-install.sh -O

Install core files:

sh ./otel-dotnet-auto-install.sh

Enable execution for the instrumentation script:

chmod +x $HOME/.otel-dotnet-auto/instrument.sh

Setup the instrumentation for the current shell session:

. $HOME/.otel-dotnet-auto/instrument.sh

If running on MacOS you will need to have greadlink installed. If it is not installed, then install coreutils package using brew, which includes greadlink:

brew install coreutils

Run your application with instrumentation:

OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=<YOUR_SERVICE_NAME> #OPTIONAL
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="authorization=LumigoToken <YOUR_LUMIGO_TOKEN>"
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="https://ga-otlp.lumigo-tracer-edge.golumigo.com"
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL="http/protobuf" ./MyNetApp

Replace <token> with your Lumigo token, which is available in Settings -> Tracing -> Manual tracing, see the Lumigo Tokens documentation.

Updated about 1 year ago