Open Telemetry Collector on Dapr Docs

Using OpenTelemetry Collector to collect traces

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Dapr directly writes traces using the OpenTelemetry (OTLP) protocol as the recommended method. For observability tools that support the OTLP directly, it is recommended to use the OpenTelemetry Collector, as it allows your application to quickly offload data and includes features, such as retries, batching, and encryption. For more information, read the Open Telemetry Collector documentation.

Dapr can also write traces using the Zipkin protocol. Prior to supporting the OTLP protocol, the Zipkin protocol was used with the OpenTelemetry Collector to send traces to observability tools such as AWS X-Ray, Google Cloud Operations Suite, and Azure Monitor. Both protocol approaches are valid, however the OpenTelemetry protocol is the recommended choice.

Using Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector to collect traces to send to Dynatrace

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Dapr integrates with the Dynatrace Collector using the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP). This guide walks through an example using Dapr to push traces to Dynatrace, using the Dynatrace version of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Note

This guide refers to the Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector, which uses the same Helm chart as the open-source collector but overridden with the Dynatrace-maintained image for better support and Dynatrace-specific features.

Prerequisites

Install Dapr on Kubernetes
Access to a Dynatrace tenant and an API token with openTelemetryTrace.ingest, metrics.ingest, and logs.ingest scopes
Helm

Set up Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector to push to your Dynatrace instance

To push traces to your Dynatrace instance, install the Dynatrace OpenTelemetry Collector on your Kubernetes cluster.

Using OpenTelemetry Collector to collect traces to send to App Insights

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Dapr integrates with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Collector using the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP). This guide walks through an example using Dapr to push traces to Azure Application Insights, using the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Prerequisites

Install Dapr on Kubernetes
Create an Application Insights resource and make note of your Application Insights connection string.

Set up OTEL Collector to push to your App Insights instance

To push traces to your Application Insights instance, install the OpenTelemetry Collector on your Kubernetes cluster.

Using OpenTelemetry to send traces to Jaeger V2

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Dapr supports writing traces using the OpenTelemetry (OTLP) protocol, and Jaeger V2 natively supports OTLP, allowing Dapr to send traces directly to a Jaeger V2 instance. This approach is recommended for production to leverage Jaeger V2’s capabilities for distributed tracing.

Configure Jaeger V2 in self-hosted mode

Local setup

The simplest way to start Jaeger is to run the pre-built, all-in-one Jaeger image published to DockerHub and expose the OTLP port: