How to consume 3rd party metrics

[MeikelLP]

I have a setup with keycloak + my project.

I wanna see metrics (+ optionally traces) of keycloak as well. How can I achieve this?

Sadly I didn't find any (satisfying) documentation.

Is Aspire able to pull metrics from /metrics or do applications need to implement a push mechanism?

[davidfowl]

Is Aspire able to pull metrics from /metrics or do applications need to implement a push mechanism?

Applications needs to push telemetry via otlp to the dashboard.

[MeikelLP]

So no way for me to configure it if the container doesn't support it? I don't know if Keycloak supports that.

Wouldn't it be quite easy to configure an endpoint Aspire has to crawl like Prometheus does?

[davidfowl]

So no way for me to configure it if the container doesn't support it? I don't know if Keycloak supports that.

I typed keycloak otlp into the interwebz and this was the first result https://github.com/jangaraj/keycloak-with-opentelemetry

Then I asked chatgpt (o3) and I got this:

https://chatgpt.com/share/681da608-76f4-8002-8f97-7bc0dd604b3a

Wouldn't it be quite easy to configure an endpoint Aspire has to crawl like Prometheus does?

No we're not implementing metrics scraping. OTLP is an industry standard that we're seeing lots of systems adopt.

[MeikelLP]

I will try that thank you. I think this was mostly on my part because I didn't know OTLP is push based