Testing OpenTelemetry Pipelines on Kubernetes with the Demo Shop and Dynatrace

A developer wants to validate a Collector configuration or a Dynatrace query without risking production, so they turn to the OpenTelemetry demo, a fictional microservices shop deployed via a Helm chart. The guide follows the project's Kubernetes installation steps and then redirects part of the trace data to Dynatrace SaaS. The demo is positioned as a safe sandbox for testing transport and backends, separate from learning how to instrument one's own code. Prerequisites include a recent Kubernetes version, substantial free memory, and a dedicated or disposable cluster, since the chart also bundles several extra components. The Dynatrace export requires a platform token with a specific trace-ingest scope, which the author advises creating only for this exercise and deleting afterward.
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