Introduction

If you want to profile the CoreOne Suite you can simply activate the appropriate tracing in the configuration.

Step 1 - Prepare your OpenTelemetry infrastructure

You will need an Open Telementry Collector and a data visualization tool such as ELK-stack and APM.

Step 2 - Configure OpenTelemetry in CoreOne

Frontends

Each of the front-ends has an application configuration file. I.e C:\ProgramData\itsense\Configuration when installed as a Windows Services.
These are the files that matter:

Application Part

File

CoreOne Authentication Services

CoreLogin_ApplicationConfiguration.json

CoreOne Self-Service Portal

Portal_ApplicationConfiguration.json

CoreOne Admin User Interfaces

FrontendWeb_ModuleConfig.json

CoreOne Admin User Interfaces 2.0

Admin2_ApplicationConfiguration.json

In that file, you can add the following settings (by using Machine Crypto of COS Configuration Manager) :

  "UseOpenTelemetry": true,
  "OpenTelemetryCollectorEndpoint": "https://otlp-gateway-prod-eu-west-2.grafana.net/otlp/v1/traces",
  "OpenTelemetryCollectorMetricsEndpoint": "https://otlp-gateway-prod-eu-west-2.grafana.net/otlp/v1/metrics",
  "OpenTelemetryCollectorHeaders": "Authorization=Basic NjkyODA0...2prd01EUTVPSDA9",
  "OpenTelemetryCollectorProtocol": "HttpProtobuf"

Simply enable OpenTelemetry and configure the appropriate endpoints, headers and the protocol.
Please note that OpenTelemetryCollectorHeaders contains how we authenticate to the telemetry system. This can be a Bearer Token, Basic Auth or an API key. It may also be empty if no authentication is needed.

Backend

For the backend, the settings are stored in the database.

update config_setting_value 
set int_value  = 0
where config_setting_code_id = 54;

update config_setting_value 
set string_value = 'http://localhost:4318/v1/traces'
where config_setting_code_id = 55;


update config_setting_value 
set string_value = ''
where config_setting_code_id = 56;

update config_setting_value 
set string_value = 'HttpProtobuf'
where config_setting_code_id = 57;

update config_setting_value 
set string_value = 'http://localhost:4318/v1/metrics'
where config_setting_code_id = 58;

Step 3 - Restart for settings to take effect

After you have applied the settings, you will need to restart the corresponding parts: