@vercel/otel Testing Strategy

[sgoodrow-zymergen]

Apologies if this is not the best place for this issue. I couldn't find the repo for @vercel/otel.

I attempted to instrument my app-router enabled NextJS project today and tried to test the instrumentation with this stack. I am fairly certain I followed the instructions correctly. The OTel instrumentation instructions indicate that this stack can be used to verify the instrumentation is sending data.

It is not clear how to use the stack to verify that. I ran the docker-compose and reviewed all logs of each pod, as well as their GUIs, and didn't see any response to running my app.

Are there environment variables that need to be set so that the app points at these collectors, or are the defaults correct?

Has anyone confirmed that this works lately?

Thanks!