Observing Traefik with OpenTelemetry and Dash0

Ingress controllers are the gatekeepers of Kubernetes, handling TLS termination, routing, and middleware at the edge of your cluster. That makes them a prime vantage point for observability, but also a tricky one to instrument. In this post, we dive into Traefik’s OpenTelemetry support - from native tracing and semantic HTTP metrics to experimental OTLP log export - and show how to bring it all together with the OpenTelemetry Collector and Dash0.