🍱 Recipes

Recipes are short, self-contained, guides for getting started with building popular use cases using Tracetest!

Tracetest Triggers

These guides show how to get the best of your instrumentation using the native Tracetest Triggers.

• True End-To-End Trace-Based Tests with the Tracetest Playwright Engine

Automation & Provisioning

These guides show how to automate and provision Tracetest.

• Provisioning Developer Environment with CLI
• Provisioning Developer Environment with a script

Tools & Integrations

These guides show integrations with other tools and vendors.

• Trace-Based End to End Testing with Cypress
• Trace-Based End to End Testing with Playwright
• Programmatically triggered trace-based tests using TypeScript
• Running Tracetest with Keptn
• Performance and Trace-Based Tests with k6
• Performance and Trace-Based Tests with Artillery
• Running Tracetest with Testkube

Streams and Message Queues

These recipes show how to trigger Tracetest test runs with message queues like Kafka.

• Testing Kafka in a Go API with OpenTelemetry

Serverless Functions (FaaS)

These recipes show how to run tests against Serverless Functions with Tracetest.

• Testing Vercel Functions with OpenTelemetry
• Testing AWS Lambda Functions (Serverless Framework) with OpenTelemetry and Tracetest
• Testing Cloudflare Workers with OpenTelemetry

API Gateways

These recipes show how to run tests against services behind API Gateways with Tracetest.

Tyk

• Testing Distributed Services Proxied by Tyk Gateway (API Gateway) with OpenTelemetry and Tracetest

Performance Testing

These recipes show how to run performance tests with distributed traces.

Artillery + Playwright + Tracetest

• Performance Testing with Distributed Tracing using Artillery, Playwright and Tracetest

Tracing Backends

These recipes show integrations with tracing backends and vendors/providers.

OpenTelemetry Collector

This integration point uses the OpenTelemetry Collector as a router to send trace data to Tracetest.

• Sending traces directly to Tracetest from a Node.js app using OpenTelemetry Collector
• Sending traces with manual instrumentation directly to Tracetest from a Node.js app using OpenTelemetry Collector
• Sending traces with manual instrumentation directly to Tracetest from a Python app using OpenTelemetry Collector

OpenTelemetry Collector + Tracing Vendors

This integration point uses the OpenTelemetry Collector as a router to send trace data to both Tracetest and tracing vendors/providers.

• Sending traces to Lightstep and Tracetest from the OpenTelemetry Demo with OpenTelemetry Collector
• Sending traces to New Relic and Tracetest from the OpenTelemetry Demo with OpenTelemetry Collector
• Sending traces to Datadog and Tracetest from the OpenTelemetry Demo with OpenTelemetry Collector
• Sending traces to Honeycomb and Tracetest from a Node.js app using the OpenTelemetry Collector
• Sending traces to Dynatrace and Tracetest from the OpenTelemetry Demo with OpenTelemetry Collector
• Sending traces to SigNoz and Tracetest from the Pokeshop API with OpenTelemetry Collector

AWS X-Ray

• Running Tracetest with AWS X-Ray (AWS X-Ray Node.js SDK)
• Running Tracetest with AWS X-Ray (AWS X-Ray Node.js SDK & AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry)
• Running Tracetest with AWS X-Ray (AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry & Pokeshop API)
• Running Tracetest with AWS Step Functions, AWS X-Ray and Terraform

Azure App Insights

• Running Tracetest with Azure App Insights (AppInsights Otel Node.js SDK)
• Running Tracetest with Azure App Insights (Otel Node.js SDK & OpenTelemetry Collector)
• Running Tracetest with Azure App Insights (OpenTelemetry Collector & Pokeshop API)

Elastic

• Sending traces to Elastic APM from a Node.js app and fetching them from Elasticsearch with Tracetest

OpenSearch

• Sending traces to OpenSearch from a Node.js app and fetching them from OpenSearch with Tracetest

Grafana Tempo

• Sending traces to Tempo from a Node.js app and fetching them from Tempo with Tracetest
• Sending traces to Tempo from the Pokeshop demo app and fetching them from Tempo with Tracetest
• Sending traces to Grafana Cloud Tempo from a Node.js app and fetching them from Grafana Cloud Tempo with Tracetest
• Sending traces to Grafana Cloud Tempo from Pokeshop Demo app and fetching them from Grafana Cloud Tempo with Tracetest

Jaeger

• Sending traces to Jaeger from a Node.js app and fetching them from Jaeger with Tracetest
• Running Tracetest on AWS Fargate with Terraform

Sumo Logic

• Sending traces to Sumo Logic from a Node.js app and fetching them from Sumo Logic with Tracetest

CI/CD Automation

These guides show integrations with CI/CD tools.

• GitHub Actions
• GitHub Actions with Secrets
• Testkube
• Tekton

Stay tuned! More recipes are coming soon. 🚀