Overview

Prerequisites

• Access to an app that is exporting OpenTelemetry distributed traces.
• If you don't have one, try our live demos to evaluate Tracetest.
• Or, read our guide how to configure OpenTelemetry yourself.

Tracetest supports two deployment models.

• Cloud-based managed
• Enterprise self-hosted

With both options Tracetest Agents run in your infrastructure on the same network as your application under test. Tracetest Agents are test runners and trace ingestors. You can choose to run the control plane / dashboard self-hosted or let us manage it in Cloud-based managed Tracetest, it's up to you. Check out the deployment architecture to learn more.

Cloud-based Managed Tracetest

You can install Cloud-based Managed Tracetest by using one of the following deployment options.

• Use the Tracetest CLI for an out-of-the-box experience with Cloud-based managed Tracetest.
• Use Docker to run Tracetest Agent with with Cloud-based managed Tracetest.
• Use Kubernetes to run Tracetest Agent with Cloud-based managed Tracetest.
• Use the Tracetest Helm Chart to install Tracetest Agent with Helm in your Kubernetes cluster and run it with Cloud-based managed Tracetest.

Enterprise Self-hosted Tracetest

You can install Enterprise Self-hosted Tracetest by using one of the following deployment options.

• Use the Tracetest Helm Chart to customize your deployment with Enterprise self-hosted Tracetest.
• Use the Tracetest Helm Chart with GCP to customize your deployment of Enterprise self-hosted Tracetest for running in GCP.