I am new to grafana and observability as a whole. I am setting up a new connection, but get the error “We could not find any traces yet. Please wait a few minutes or try a different service name”
I am not clear on what I am doing wrong. I ensured that my Alloy is running and its config file was updated using the instructions in the connection guide.
I do not have any data that is being sent to the allow yet. Should I be able to establis a connection with just the alloy running?
(I am running on windows and attempting a .NET connection using OpenTelemetry protocol)
People here will probably need much more information in order to help you with this.
I’m assuming you are trying to set up a .NET service with application observability? Is the alloy config you’re using out of the box, or what is it / where did it come from? Which connection guide did you use?
Generally to get traces, you’ll have to use .NET to instrument the service, alloy to gather that, ship it to something like Grafana or Grafana Cloud backend, and then you’ll need to generate traces by actually invoking the service. The traces come from alloy gathering otel data “observed” from the service.
I do not have any data that is being sent to the allow yet. Should I be able to establis a connection with just the alloy running?
There might be a conceptual issue with this question, I’m not sure. The model to keep in mind is OTel instrumentation on the .NET service reports telemetry to alloy, which forwards it to a backend. But nothing is reported nor forwarded unless the service is invoked. Suggest thinking it through from that perspective, and posting your work
