Traefik

Traefik Integration in Dash0

Traefik is a modern, open-source application proxy and load balancer designed for microservices and cloud-native architectures. It seamlessly integrates with Kubernetes, Docker, and other environments to dynamically route traffic to services. The Dash0 integration enhances observability for Traefik, providing monitoring capabilities across metrics, access logs, and tracing, all backed by OpenTelemetry standards.

For more information, visit the Traefik Observability Documentation.

Use Cases

Gain comprehensive visibility into your Traefik setup and optimize performance with the following observability features:

• Monitor Request Flows with Tracing: Visualize the full lifecycle of requests across services. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Traefik’s distributed tracing provides insight into latency, headers, and spans—ideal for debugging and performance tuning.
• Track System and Traffic Metrics: Collect real-time performance data such as request counts, durations, retries, open connections, and TLS usage.
• Audit and Analyze Traffic with Access Logs: Record detailed information about incoming requests, including IPs, headers, duration, response status, and more. Filter and format logs for deeper analysis or export them as structured JSON to external systems.
• Customize Observability by EntryPoint or Router: Traefik allows fine-grained control over observability settings, letting you enable or disable logs, metrics, or tracing at a per-entrypoint or per-router level for optimized insights.

Use this integration to streamline monitoring of your edge traffic, debug routing issues, and ensure your platform services are operating efficiently.

Overview

Traefik is a modern, dynamic reverse proxy and load balancer that includes built-in support for observability via metrics, tracing, and access logs.
This integration enables users to forward Traefik telemetry to Dash0 using the OTLP HTTP protocol.

For more details, refer to the Traefik Observability Documentation.

Configure

Collecting Telemetry

Step 1: Create a values.yaml File

Configure Traefik to export metrics, traces, and logs to Dash0 by storing the following configuration in a values.yaml file:

Optionally, configure the Dash0 dataset to send the data to a different dataset than the default.

This configuration enables Traefik to send metrics, traces, and access logs to Dash0 via OTLP HTTP endpoints.

Step 2: Deploy Traefik with Helm

Create a dedicated namespace for Traefik (optional but recommended), then install it using Helm:

This installs Traefik with the specified configuration to export observability data to Dash0.

What Gets Collected

Once deployed, Traefik will send telemetry to Dash0, including:

• Metrics such as request rates, response durations, and active connections
• Traces of HTTP request lifecycles through the proxy
• Access logs for incoming requests and responses

This setup enables centralized observability for all traffic passing through Traefik, providing powerful insight into service behavior.

For more details, refer to the Traefik Metrics, Tracing, and Access Logs documentation.