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Configuring the Tracetest Agent (Private Access)

The Tracetest Agent enables Tracetest to access your application under test and to ingest trace data from your OpenTelemetry Collector or tracing backend. It's a lightweight, dependency-free, agent that runs in your environment as an executable, Docker container, or in your Cloud Native infrastructure.

Start Tracetest Agent​

Tracetest Agent connects to Tracetest via an API Key.

Sign in to Tracetest and follow the instructions on the Settings > Access page.

Select Application is in a private environment.

Agent Settings

Configure Tracetest Agent​

Once started, Tracetest Agent exposes OTLP ports 4317 and 4318 to ingest traces via gRPC and HTTP and is responsible for running tests. Read the detailed concepts here.

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If you want to see detailed information about an isntance of Tracetest Agent, you can use the --mode=verbose flag: