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OTLP Ingestion Endpoint

Tracetest Agent receives trace data on port 4317 and 4318. The OTLP endpoint might look like:

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

Connect Tracetest to Ingest OpenTelemetry Traces 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.