OTLP Receiver

Status
Stability	development: profiles
	stable: traces, metrics, logs
Distributions	core, contrib, k8s, otlp
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Receives data via gRPC or HTTP using OTLP format.

Getting Started

All that is required to enable the OTLP receiver is to include it in the receiver definitions. A protocol can be disabled by simply not specifying it in the list of protocols.

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:
      http:

The following settings are configurable:

endpoint (default = localhost:4317 for grpc protocol, localhost:4318 http protocol): host:port to which the receiver is going to receive data. The valid syntax is described at https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/naming.md. See our security best practices doc to understand how to set the endpoint in different environments.

Advanced Configuration

Several helper files are leveraged to provide additional capabilities automatically:

Writing with HTTP/JSON

The OTLP receiver can receive trace export calls via HTTP/JSON in addition to gRPC. The HTTP/JSON address is the same as gRPC as the protocol is recognized and processed accordingly. Note the serialization format needs to be OTLP JSON.

The HTTP/JSON configuration also provides traces_url_path, metrics_url_path, logs_url_path, and profiles_url_path configurations to allow the URL paths that signal data needs to be sent to be modified per signal type. These default to /v1/traces, /v1/metrics, /v1/logs, and /v1/profiles respectively.

To write traces with HTTP/JSON, POST to [address]/[traces_url_path] for traces, to [address]/[metrics_url_path] for metrics, to [address]/[logs_url_path] for logs, and to [address]/[profiles_url_path] for profiles. The default port is 4318. When using the otlphttpexporter peer to communicate with this component, use the traces_endpoint, metrics_endpoint, logs_endpoint, and profiles_endpoint settings in the otlphttpexporter to set the proper URL to match the address and URL signal path on the otlpreceiver.

CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing)

The HTTP/JSON endpoint can also optionally configure CORS under cors:. Specify what origins (or wildcard patterns) to allow requests from as allowed_origins. To allow additional request headers outside of the default safelist, set allowed_headers. Browsers can be instructed to cache responses to preflight requests by setting max_age.

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      http:
        endpoint: "localhost:4318"
        cors:
          allowed_origins:
            - http://test.com
            # Origins can have wildcards with *, use * by itself to match any origin.
            - https://*.example.com
          allowed_headers:
            - Example-Header
          max_age: 7200