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Chapter 7. Removing the Distributed Tracing Platform

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For information about removing the deprecated Distributed Tracing Platform (Jaeger), see Removing in the Distributed Tracing Platform (Jaeger) documentation.

The steps for removing the Red Hat OpenShift Distributed Tracing Platform from an OpenShift Container Platform cluster are as follows:

  1. Shut down all Distributed Tracing Platform pods.
  2. Remove any TempoStack instances.
  3. Remove the Tempo Operator.

7.1. Removing by using the web console

You can remove a TempoStack instance in the Administrator view of the web console.

Prerequisites

  • You are logged in to the OpenShift Container Platform web console as a cluster administrator with the cluster-admin role.
  • For Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, you must be logged in using an account with the dedicated-admin role.

Procedure

  1. Go to Operators Installed Operators Tempo Operator TempoStack.
  2. To remove the TempoStack instance, select kebab Delete TempoStack Delete.
  3. Optional: Remove the Tempo Operator.

7.2. Removing by using the CLI

You can remove a TempoStack instance on the command line.

Prerequisites

  • An active OpenShift CLI (oc) session by a cluster administrator with the cluster-admin role.

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    • Ensure that your OpenShift CLI (oc) version is up to date and matches your OpenShift Container Platform version.

    • Run oc login:

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      $ oc login --username=<your_username>

Procedure

  1. Get the name of the TempoStack instance by running the following command:

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    $ oc get deployments -n <project_of_tempostack_instance>

  2. Remove the TempoStack instance by running the following command:

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    $ oc delete tempo <tempostack_instance_name> -n <project_of_tempostack_instance>
  3. Optional: Remove the Tempo Operator.

Verification

  1. Run the following command to verify that the TempoStack instance is not found in the output, which indicates its successful removal:

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    $ oc get deployments -n <project_of_tempostack_instance>

7.3. Additional resources

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