Installing Helios with Nx.dev

Installing Helios in your Nx workspace

Navigate to your workspace's root directory, and install the latest Helios OpenTelemetry SDK:

npm install --save helios-opentelemetry-sdk

Or, if you are using Yarn:

yarn add helios-opentelemetry-sdk

Configure Helios through environment variables

Define the following environment variables when running your service, under the .env file on your root folder or any other file stated in the Environment Variables Nx documentation:

NODE_OPTIONS="--require helios-opentelemetry-sdk"
HS_TOKEN=<API_TOKEN> # TODO: Replace value with API token from Helios.
HS_ENVIRONMENT="<ENVIRONMENT_NAME>" # TODO: Replace value with service environment.

The service name for each app is taken from the Nx configuration.

When running the apps built by Nx

Define the same environment variables on the environment your app is running on.

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