Configure OTLP exporter via env opentelemetry

Auto-instrumentation endpoint and resource attrs without code change. 4317=gRPC, 4318=HTTP.

export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://collector:4317 OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES=service.name=api,deployment.environment=prod

#opentelemetry #otel #observability #cloud

more opentelemetry all 3 commands →

Send OTLP trace via curl curl -s -XPOST http://collector:4318/v1/traces -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @trace.json -w '%{http_code}' Validate collector config otelcol validate --config=/etc/otelcol/config.yaml