Elastiflix Demo Application

Overview

This demo application is a simple movie app that allows you to add movies to your favourites list. The repository provides all possible permutations of the application, instrumented with Elastic APM, OpenTelemetry, or not instrumented at all.

You can compare the code samples and Dockerfiles to better understand what it takes to instrument an application with Elastic APM or OpenTelemetry.

Setup

add your Elastic deployment details and credentials to the .env file:

.env file in same directory as compose files:

ELASTIC_APM_SERVER_URL="https://foobar.apm.us-central1.gcp.cloud.es.io"
ELASTIC_APM_SECRET_TOKEN="secret123"

ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME="elastic"
ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD="changeme"
ELASTICSEARCH_URL="https://foobar.es.us-central1.gcp.cloud.es.io"

start the app:

You can start the app in 3 different ways and also with different scenarios. See below for the scenarios.

Not instrumented:

cd Elastiflix
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d --no-build

Elastic instrumented:

cd Elastiflix
docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic.yml up -d --no-build

OpenTelemetry instrumented:

cd Elastiflix
docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic-otel.yml up -d --no-build

then visit the app at localhost:9000

the add favourites button is the main functionality right now. It calls the node service which then calls the python service

Supported Languages

language	non instrumented	elastic manual	elastic auto	otel manual	otel auto
python	[x]	[x]	not supported	[x]	[x]
dotnet	[x]		[x]		[x]
node	[x]	[x]	not supported	[x]	[x]
javascript	[x]	[x]	not supported	[ ]	not supported
Go	[x]	[x]	not supported	[x]	not supported
java	[x]	[x]	[x]	[x]	[x]

Example Scenarios

Non Instrumented

# healthy
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

# pause redis for 5 seconds, every 30 seconds
TOGGLE_CLIENT_PAUSE=true docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

# add artificial delay to python service, 100ms, delay 50% of requests by 1000ms
TOGGLE_SERVICE_DELAY=100 TOGGLE_CANARY_DELAY=1000 docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

# add artificial delay to python service, 100ms, delay 50% of requests by 1000ms, and fail 20% of them
TOGGLE_SERVICE_DELAY=100 TOGGLE_CANARY_DELAY=1000 TOGGLE_CANARY_FAILURE=0.2 docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

# throw error in nodejs service, 50% of the time
THROW_NOT_A_FUNCTION_ERROR=true docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d 

Elastic

# healthy
docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic.yml up -d

# pause redis for 5 seconds, every 30 seconds
TOGGLE_CLIENT_PAUSE=true docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic.yml up -d 

# add artificial delay to python service, 100ms, delay 50% of requests by 1000ms
TOGGLE_SERVICE_DELAY=100 TOGGLE_CANARY_DELAY=1000 docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic.yml up -d

# add artificial delay to python service, 100ms, delay 50% of requests by 1000ms, and fail 20% of them
TOGGLE_SERVICE_DELAY=100 TOGGLE_CANARY_DELAY=1000 TOGGLE_CANARY_FAILURE=0.2 docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic.yml up -d

# throw error in nodejs service, 50% of the time
THROW_NOT_A_FUNCTION_ERROR=true docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic.yml up -d 

OpenTelemetry

# healthy
docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic-otel.yml up -d

# pause redis for 5 seconds, every 30 seconds
TOGGLE_CLIENT_PAUSE=true docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic-otel.yml up -d 

# add artificial delay to python service, 100ms, delay 50% of requests by 1000ms
TOGGLE_SERVICE_DELAY=100 TOGGLE_CANARY_DELAY=1000 docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic-otel.yml up -d

# add artificial delay to python service, 100ms, delay 50% of requests by 1000ms, and fail 20% of them
TOGGLE_SERVICE_DELAY=100 TOGGLE_CANARY_DELAY=1000 TOGGLE_CANARY_FAILURE=0.2 docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic-otel.yml up -d


# throw error in nodejs service, 50% of the time
THROW_NOT_A_FUNCTION_ERROR=true docker-compose -f docker-compose-elastic-otel.yml up -d 

Scenario / Feature Toggles

service	env	type	values	description
redis	TOGGLE_CLIENT_PAUSE	bool	true / false	pause redis for 5 seconds every 30 seconds to cause artificial delays
python	TOGGLE_SERVICE_DELAY	int	0-5000	artificial delay in milliseconds for all requests
python	TOGGLE_CANARY_DELAY	int	0-5000	artificial delay in milliseconds for canary requests (50% of all POST /favorite requests)
python	TOGGLE_CANARY_FAILURE	float	0-1	artificial failure rate for canary requests
node	THROW_NOT_A_FUNCTION_ERROR	bool	true / false	throw an error in the node service for 50% of all POST /api/favorite requests