---
title: Deploying the OpenTelemetry demo app
description: Simulate traffic and test end-to-end observability in Coralogix by deploying the OpenTelemetry Demo application.
url: https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/infrastructure/infrastructure-explorer/deploy-otel-demo/
product: infra-monitoring
feature: Infrastructure Explorer
feature_id: infrastructure-explorer
feature_identifier: infra-monitoring/infrastructure-explorer
last_updated: '2026-09-08'
---

# Deploying the OpenTelemetry demo app

Deploy the OpenTelemetry Demo application to simulate realistic traffic and test end-to-end observability in your Coralogix setup.

## Step 1: Add the OpenTelemetry Helm repository

```
helm repo add open-telemetry https://open-telemetry.github.io/opentelemetry-helm-charts
```

## Step 2: Create the `demo` namespace

```
kubectl create ns demo
```

## Step 3: Save the following as `demo-values.yaml`

```
opentelemetry-collector:

  enabled: false



jaeger:

  enabled: false



prometheus:

  enabled: false



grafana:

  enabled: false



opensearch:

  enabled: false



default:

  env:

    - name: OTEL_SERVICE_NAME

      value: frontend

    - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES

      value: "service.name=frontend,service.namespace=demo,service.version=1.0.0"

    - name: NODE_IP

      value: "127.0.0.1"



  envOverrides:

    - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT

      value: "127.0.0.1:4317"

    - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL

      value: grpc

    - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_INSECURE

      value: "true"
```

## Step 4: Deploy the demo application

```
helm install otel-demo open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo \

  --namespace demo \

  --create-namespace \

  --values demo-values.yaml
```

[![Running OpenTelemetry demo application view](/docs/assets/images/running-demo-91662ea6085a18e776ca1ccc268fffb7.webp)](https://coralogix.com/docs/assets/images/running-demo-91662ea6085a18e776ca1ccc268fffb7.webp)

## Verify the setup

Once the demo application is running, verify everything is connected:

1. Go to the Coralogix UI.
2. Navigate to **Infrastructure**, then **Infrastructure Explorer**.
3. Click **Kubernetes** in the left sidebar.
4. Confirm your cluster appears with nodes and pod data.
5. Drill into nodes or pods to view metrics, logs, and traces.

## Next steps

Configure the Coralogix Kubernetes integration to collect logs, metrics, traces, and infrastructure metadata by following [Getting started with Kubernetes monitoring](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/infrastructure/infrastructure-explorer/getting-started-kubernetes-monitoring.md).

## Related resources

* [Set up with Minikube](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/infrastructure/infrastructure-explorer/setup-with-minikub.md)
* [Getting started with Kubernetes monitoring](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/infrastructure/infrastructure-explorer/getting-started-kubernetes-monitoring.md)
* [Explore your infrastructure](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/infrastructure/infrastructure-explorer/explore-infra.md)