# Open Telemetry Tracing

This sample demonstrates the support for the OpenTelemetry tracing provider with the Telemetry API.

## Start otel-collector service

First, deploy the `otel-collector` backend with simple configuration.

```bash
kubectl -n <namespace> apply -f ../otel.yaml
```

In this example, we use `observability` as the namespace to deploy the `otel-collector` backend:

```bash
kubectl create namespace observability

# Grafana Dashboards

This folder contains Istio's official Grafana dashboards.
These get publish to [Grafana](https://grafana.com/orgs/istio/dashboards) during release, and are bundled into our
[Grafana sample](../../../samples/addons/grafana.yaml).

## Jsonnet

Newer dashboards are generated with [Jsonnet](https://jsonnet.org/) with the [Grafonnet](https://grafana.github.io/grafonnet/index.html).