Authentication and Authorization in the OpenTelemetry .NET project involves handling authentication and adding authentication data to outgoing requests. This can be done using the OpenTelemetry Collector, which allows receivers and exporters to be connected to authenticators. The OpenTelemetry Collector provides a way to both authenticate incoming connections at the receiver’s side and add authentication data to outgoing requests at the exporter’s side.
The OpenTelemetry Collector has a pluggable architecture, with two distributions available: core and contrib. The contrib distribution includes a wide array of integrations for specific telemetry platforms and technologies, which are not available in the core distribution. It is available as a pre-packaged Docker container.
To build a custom authenticator for the OpenTelemetry Collector, you can refer to the documentation on the OpenTelemetry website. This guide provides general directions on how to build a custom authenticator and refers to the up-to-date API Reference Guide for the actual semantics of each type and function.
For .NET Framework instrumentation, you can use the OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNet NuGet package to add a required HttpModule to your Web.Config file. This module will automatically instrument your ASP.NET application and send telemetry data to the OpenTelemetry Collector.
To set up exporters for OTLP and other common protocols in your code, you can refer to the documentation on the OpenTelemetry website. This documentation provides introductions on how to set up exporters for OTLP and other common protocols in your code.
For more information on OpenTelemetry .NET, you can refer to the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK documentation and the OpenTelemetry Specification. The OpenTelemetry .NET SDK provides a comprehensive set of features for generating and collecting application telemetry data, while the OpenTelemetry Specification defines the data model and APIs used by the OpenTelemetry project.
In summary, the OpenTelemetry Collector provides a way to handle authentication and add authentication data to outgoing requests in the OpenTelemetry .NET project. Custom authenticators can be built using the OpenTelemetry Collector, and exporters can be set up for OTLP and other common protocols. The OpenTelemetry .NET SDK and Specification provide a comprehensive set of features for generating and collecting application telemetry data.
Sources:
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/custom-auth
- https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/static/configuration/traces-config
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/net/automatic
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/agents/telemetry
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/net/automatic
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/net/netframework
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/net/exporters
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/opamp
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/net
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/net/libraries
- https://grafana.com/docs/opentelemetry/collector/how-to-scale
