Installing the OpenTelemetry Demo application

As we need to send data from our local machine to our Grafana Cloud instance, we need to provide some credentials and tell our local machine where to send data. Before we install the demo application, we need to set up access tokens so we can send data to our Grafana Cloud stack.

Setting up access credentials

Access tokens allow the Open Telemetry application to send data securely to your Grafana Cloud stack. To set up an access token, we need to do the following:

1. In the Grafana Cloud Portal, select Access Policies in the Security section.
2. Click Create access policy.
3. Choose a name and display name, and set Realm to All Stacks.
4. Set the Write scope for metrics, logs, and traces and click Create.
5. On the new access policy, click Add token.
6. Give the token a name and set the expiration date. Click Create.
7. Finally, copy the token and save it securely.

Now that we’ve created our token, let’...