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Setting up the provided Node tracing module

Setting up the provided Node tracing module - OpenTelemetry Tutorial

From the course: Mastering Observability with OpenTelemetry

Setting up the provided Node tracing module

- [Instructor] We will start our tracing instrumentation journey with Node.js and it made our life a little bit easier by providing a library to get us started. I did this because this course shouldn't be a typing exercise and Node.js needs plenty of boilerplate as you will see soon. You find this library in the underscore opentelemetry js folder I'm opening it now. If you now open the package.json file, you see that most dependencies are on opentelemetry and here I have to explain one more thing. In this course, all dependencies are predefined and we won't install any additional packages as opentelemetry's still under heavy development, you may otherwise end up with a new version or a mix that works slightly differently and this might be confusing. Yet upgrading your codes to a new version later will be easy once you understand the basic concepts. So let's install these dependencies now, for that I open an new terminal window and I switch to underscore opentelemetry js and there I…

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