Setup GitPod environment variables

You will need to create 2 environment variables in GitPod with your Honeycomb API Key and Dataset name. You will need a Honeycomb Team in order to get your API key. If you don't have a Honeycomb Team you can sign up for a free one here.

To create the environment variables you go to your GitPod user variables and click the New Variable button.

1. HONEYCOMB_API_KEY set this to your Honeycomb API Key with a Scope of /
2. HONEYCOMB_DATASET set this to the name of the Honeycomb Dataset to send data to (ie: workshop)

Gipod

Click button to open in Gitpod

Install Confluent Docker

1. Start up docker file
   docker compose up or docker-compose up -d

• Assumes cluster is on port 9092.

When done docker compose down or docker-compose down

Install Confluent Local (No Docker)

Notes: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/quickstart/ce-quickstart.html#ce-quickstart - Step 1 only

• use local host template config
• Create a local file (for example, at $HOME/.confluent/java.config) with configuration parameters to connect to your Kafka cluster. bootstrap.servers=localhost:9092
• JDK 1.8 or 1.11 required for kafka.
• Make sure right version of java is set in terminal.
  export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_271.jdk/Contents/Home"
• Need to install confluent command and confluent control center
• Assumes cluster is on port 9092.

Start

confluent local services start

Stop

confluent local services stop

Applications

1. Download java agents
   curl -L https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/releases/download/v1.1.0/opentelemetry-javaagent-all.jar > /opt/agents/otel.jar

2. Set up your local environment with your Honeycomb API Key and Dataset name. You will need a Honeycomb Team in order to get your API key. If you don't have a Honeycomb Team you can sign up for a free one here. For Dataset name, we recommend kafkaexample but you can make this whatever you like. The -w option will write the environment variables to your shell profile.

source setup-env.sh YOUR_API_KEY kafkaexample -w

3. Run the run script

The syntax for the run script is:

run.sh <producer port> <consumer port>

Where the producer port and consumer port is the ports for the spring web servers to listen on for generating load. See usage below for generating load to the webservers.

The syntax for the stop script is:

stop.sh

Usage

1 Message on topic Topic1

http://localhost:<producerport>/

N Messages on topic Topic1

http://localhost:<producerport>/Topic1?numMessages=<n>

N Messages on topic Topic2

http://localhost:<producerport>/Topic2?numMessages=<n>

N Messages on topic Topic3

http://localhost:<producerport>/Topic3?numMessages=<n>