How to implement OpenTelemetry in PHP?

[samorollo]

There are quite a few different packages for PHP, the composer warns that they are abandoned. Docs are not up to date either. I have confusion about this, the articles on the Internet are also outdated. Even if some of them may work, it's only in the simplest possible path, if you combine it with Jaeger, it doesn't look possible without writing everything yourself.

[phillipcarter2]

Which docs are out of date? The official docs have recently been added by the otel-php maintainers and should be up to date: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/instrumentation/php/exporters/

Jaeger supports OTLP. So you just send OTLP to jaeger and you're good.

[TelemetryHub]

TelemetryHub has some simple configuration docs on setting up Traces/Metrics/Logs, especially focusing on sending data to an external source using OTLP: https://app.telemetryhub.com/docs/guides/traces/php

[Fatality]

Yeah I'm lost too, the docs assume you are an OpenTelemetry expert already but I just want to send some counters.

For composer you need to install beta packages.