Send OTLP trace via curl opentelemetry

Smoke-test the OTLP HTTP receiver with a sample payload. note: 4318 path, not 4317.

curl -s -XPOST http://collector:4318/v1/traces -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @trace.json -w '%{http_code}'

#opentelemetry #otel #api #debug

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Validate collector config otelcol validate --config=/etc/otelcol/config.yaml Configure OTLP exporter via env export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://collector:4317 OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES=service.name=api,deployment.environment=prod