Is it Observable

Episode : WHat is Pixie

This repository contains the files utilized during the tutorial presented in the dedicated IsItObservable episode related Pixie.

This repository showcase the usage of Pixie with :

• The OpenTelemetry demo
• Dynatrace

We will send all Telemetry data produced by Pixie to Dynatrace.

Prerequisite

The following tools need to be install on your machine :

• jq
• kubectl
• git
• gcloud ( if you are using GKE)
• Helm

Deployment Steps in GCP

You will first need a Kubernetes cluster with 2 Nodes. You can either deploy on Minikube or K3s or follow the instructions to create GKE cluster:

1.Create a Google Cloud Platform Project

PROJECT_ID="<your-project-id>"
gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com --project ${PROJECT_ID}
gcloud services enable monitoring.googleapis.com \
    cloudtrace.googleapis.com \
    clouddebugger.googleapis.com \
    cloudprofiler.googleapis.com \
    --project ${PROJECT_ID}

2.Create a GKE cluster

ZONE=europe-west3-a
NAME=isitobservable-pixie
gcloud container clusters create "${NAME}" --zone ${ZONE} --machine-type=e2-standard-4 --num-nodes=2

Getting started

Dynatrace Tenant

1. Dynatrace Tenant - start a trial

If you don't have any Dyntrace tenant , then i suggest to create a trial using the following link : Dynatrace Trial Once you have your Tenant save the Dynatrace tenant url in the variable DT_TENANT_URL (for example : https://dedededfrf.live.dynatrace.com)

DT_TENANT_URL=<YOUR TENANT Host>

2. Create the Dynatrace API Tokens

Create a Dynatrace token with the following scope ( left menu Acces Token):

• ingest metrics
• ingest OpenTelemetry traces
• ingest logs

Save the value of the token . We will use it later to store in a k8S secret

DATA_INGEST_TOKEN=<YOUR TOKEN VALUE>

2.Clone the Github Repository

https://github.com/isItObservable/pixie
cd pixie

4. Create a Pixie Community Cloud account

Visit our pixie's page and sign up.

5. Install the Pixie Cli

# Copy and run command to install the Pixie CLI.
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://withpixie.ai/install.sh)"

6. Deploy the otelDemo application

cd ..
chmod 777 deployment.sh
./deployment.sh  --dturl "${DT_TENANT_URL}" --dtingesttoken "${DATA_INGEST_TOKEN}"

7. Connect the cli to your Pixie Cloud

px auth login

7. Install Vizier

px deploy

6. Customize the OpenTelemetry Plugin

Let's configure the OpenTelemetry plugin In pixie click on Data retention logo on the left menu

Add the Plugin OpenTelemetry, and configure it to send the telemetry data to our OpenTelemtry collector : oteld-collector.default.svc.cluster.local:4317

Customize the OpenTelemetry plugin by adding all the scripts located in the /pixie plugin folder Click on add script to add one the available scripts :

Once you have added all the scripts you should have the following results :