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OpenTelemetry Collector

Tracetest receives trace data on port 4317. Tracetest's trace receiver endpoint might look like:

http://your-tracetest-instance.com:4317
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Examples of configuring Tracetest can be found in the examples folder of the Tracetest GitHub repo.

Configuring OpenTelemetry Collector to Send Traces to Tracetest​

If you don't want to use a trace data store, you can send all traces directly to Tracetest using your OpenTelemetry Collector. And, you don't have to change your existing pipelines to do so.

In your OpenTelemetry Collector config file:

  • Set the exporter to otlp/1
  • Set the endpoint to your Tracetest instance on port 4317
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If you are running Tracetest with Docker, and Tracetest's service name is tracetest, then the endpoint might look like this http://tracetest:4317

# collector.config.yaml

# If you already have receivers declared, you can just ignore
# this one and still use yours instead.
receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:
      http:

processors:
  batch:
    timeout: 100ms

exporters:
  # This is the exporter that will send traces to Tracetest
  otlp/1:
    endpoint: http://your-tracetest-instance.com:4317
    tls:
      insecure: true

service:
  pipelines:
    # your probably already have a traces pipeline, you don't have to change it.
    # just add this one to your configuration. Just make sure to not have two
    # pipelines with the same name
    traces/1:
      receivers: [otlp] # your receiver
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [otlp/1] # your exporter pointing to your tracetest instance

Configure Tracetest to Use OpenTelemetry Collector​

Configure your Tracetest instance to expose an otlp endpoint to make it aware it will receive traces from the OpenTelemetry Collector. This will expose Tracetest's trace receiver on port 4317.

Connect Tracetest to OpenTelemetry Collector with the Web UI​

In the Web UI, (1) open Settings, and, on the (2) Trace Ingestion tab, select (3) OpenTelemetry.

Trace Ingestion Settings

Connect Tracetest to OpenTelemetry Collector with the CLI​

Or, if you prefer using the CLI, you can use this file config.

type: DataStore
spec:
  name: Opentelemetry Collector pipeline
  type: otlp
  default: true

Proceed to run this command in the terminal, and specify the file above.

tracetest apply datastore -f my/data-store/file/location.yaml
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To learn more, read the recipe on running a sample app with OpenTelemetry Collector and Tracetest.