OpenTelemetry Demo

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Welcome to New Relic's Fork of the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop Demo

This repository contains is a fork of the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment.

To refer back to the origin for history and contributors, see the: OpenTelemetry Demo Astronomy Shop README

New Relic Customizations

Some customizations have been made to use the demo application for use with the New Relic platform, which can be found in the newrelic folder. See this document for details.

Documentation

To see a description of services and the architecture, go to Open Telemetry's Demo Documentation. For documentation specific to the New Relic fork, see this document.