otlp exporter
3 complete collector configs on this site use the otlp exporter. Each is a whole file, validated with otelcol-contrib v0.161.0.
- Send OTLP over gRPC (with headers and TLS)Forward everything over OTLP/gRPC to a backend or another collector, with a tenant header, compression, a queue and retries.Logs · Metrics · Traces
- Buffer through a backend outage with a persistent queueKeep what arrives while the backend is down on disk, and deliver it when the backend is back - even if the collector restarts in between.Logs · Traces
- RED metrics from traces (spanmetrics connector) to PrometheusRequest rate, errors and latency per service and endpoint, computed from the spans you already send - no metrics SDK needed.Metrics · Traces