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Dependencies

If you want to send telemetry data to an OTLP endpoint (like the OpenTelemetry Collector, Jaeger or Prometheus), you can choose between two different protocols to transport your data:

• HTTP/protobuf
• gRPC

Start by installing the respective exporter packages as a dependency for your project:

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pip install opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http

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pip install opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc

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Usage

Next, configure the exporter to point at an OTLP endpoint in your code.

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from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import SERVICE_NAME, Resource

from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor

from opentelemetry import metrics
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.metric_exporter import OTLPMetricExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import PeriodicExportingMetricReader

# Service name is required for most backends
resource = Resource(attributes={
    SERVICE_NAME: "your-service-name"
})

traceProvider = TracerProvider(resource=resource)
processor = BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter(endpoint="<traces-endpoint>/v1/traces"))
traceProvider.add_span_processor(processor)
trace.set_tracer_provider(traceProvider)

reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(
    OTLPMetricExporter(endpoint="<traces-endpoint>/v1/metrics")
)
meterProvider = MeterProvider(resource=resource, metric_readers=[reader])
metrics.set_meter_provider(meterProvider)

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from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import SERVICE_NAME, Resource

from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor

from opentelemetry import metrics
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.metric_exporter import OTLPMetricExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import PeriodicExportingMetricReader

# Service name is required for most backends
resource = Resource(attributes={
    SERVICE_NAME: "your-service-name"
})

traceProvider = TracerProvider(resource=resource)
processor = BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter(endpoint="your-endpoint-here"))
traceProvider.add_span_processor(processor)
trace.set_tracer_provider(traceProvider)

reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(
    OTLPMetricExporter(endpoint="localhost:5555")
)
meterProvider = MeterProvider(resource=resource, metric_readers=[reader])
metrics.set_meter_provider(meterProvider)

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Console

To debug your instrumentation or see the values locally in development, you can use exporters writing telemetry data to the console (stdout).

The ConsoleSpanExporter and ConsoleMetricExporter are included in the opentelemetry-sdk package.

from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import SERVICE_NAME, Resource

from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor, ConsoleSpanExporter

from opentelemetry import metrics
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import PeriodicExportingMetricReader, ConsoleMetricExporter

# Service name is required for most backends,
# and although it's not necessary for console export,
# it's good to set service name anyways.
resource = Resource(attributes={
    SERVICE_NAME: "your-service-name"
})

traceProvider = TracerProvider(resource=resource)
processor = BatchSpanProcessor(ConsoleSpanExporter())
traceProvider.add_span_processor(processor)
trace.set_tracer_provider(traceProvider)

reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(ConsoleMetricExporter())
meterProvider = MeterProvider(resource=resource, metric_readers=[reader])
metrics.set_meter_provider(meterProvider)

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There are temporality presets for each instrumentation kind. These presets can be set with the environment variable OTEL_EXPORTER_METRICS_TEMPORALITY_PREFERENCE, for example:

export OTEL_EXPORTER_METRICS_TEMPORALITY_PREFERENCE="DELTA"

The default value for OTEL_EXPORTER_METRICS_TEMPORALITY_PREFERENCE is "CUMULATIVE".

The available values and their corresponding settings for this environment variable are:

• CUMULATIVE

  • Counter: CUMULATIVE
  • UpDownCounter: CUMULATIVE
  • Histogram: CUMULATIVE
  • ObservableCounter: CUMULATIVE
  • ObservableUpDownCounter: CUMULATIVE
  • ObservableGauge: CUMULATIVE

• DELTA

  • Counter: DELTA
  • UpDownCounter: CUMULATIVE
  • Histogram: DELTA
  • ObservableCounter: DELTA
  • ObservableUpDownCounter: CUMULATIVE
  • ObservableGauge: CUMULATIVE

• LOWMEMORY

  • Counter: DELTA
  • UpDownCounter: CUMULATIVE
  • Histogram: DELTA
  • ObservableCounter: CUMULATIVE
  • ObservableUpDownCounter: CUMULATIVE
  • ObservableGauge: CUMULATIVE

Setting OTEL_EXPORTER_METRICS_TEMPORALITY_PREFERENCE to any other value than CUMULATIVE, DELTA or LOWMEMORY will log a warning and set this environment variable to CUMULATIVE.

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Dependencies

Install the exporter package as a dependency for your application:

pip install opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus

Update your OpenTelemetry configuration to use the exporter and to send data to your Prometheus backend:

from prometheus_client import start_http_server

from opentelemetry import metrics
from opentelemetry.exporter.prometheus import PrometheusMetricReader
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import PeriodicExportingMetricReader
from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import SERVICE_NAME, Resource

# Service name is required for most backends
resource = Resource(attributes={
    SERVICE_NAME: "your-service-name"
})

# Start Prometheus client
start_http_server(port=9464, addr="localhost")
# Initialize PrometheusMetricReader which pulls metrics from the SDK
# on-demand to respond to scrape requests
reader = PrometheusMetricReader()
provider = MeterProvider(resource=resource, metric_readers=[reader])
metrics.set_meter_provider(provider)

With the above you can access your metrics at http://localhost:9464/metrics. Prometheus or an OpenTelemetry Collector with the Prometheus receiver can scrape the metrics from this endpoint.

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Dependencies

To send your trace data to Zipkin, , you can choose between two different protocols to transport your data:

• HTTP/protobuf
• Thrift

Install the exporter package as a dependency for your application:

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pip install opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-proto-http

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pip install opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json

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Update your OpenTelemetry configuration to use the exporter and to send data to your Zipkin backend:

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from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.exporter.zipkin.proto.http import ZipkinExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import SERVICE_NAME, Resource

resource = Resource(attributes={
    SERVICE_NAME: "your-service-name"
})

zipkin_exporter = ZipkinExporter(endpoint="http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans")

provider = TracerProvider(resource=resource)
processor = BatchSpanProcessor(zipkin_exporter)
provider.add_span_processor(processor)
trace.set_tracer_provider(provider)

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from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.exporter.zipkin.json import ZipkinExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import SERVICE_NAME, Resource

resource = Resource(attributes={
    SERVICE_NAME: "your-service-name"
})

zipkin_exporter = ZipkinExporter(endpoint="http://localhost:9411/api/v2/spans")

provider = TracerProvider(resource=resource)
processor = BatchSpanProcessor(zipkin_exporter)
provider.add_span_processor(processor)
trace.set_tracer_provider(provider)

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from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor

processor = SimpleSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter(endpoint="your-endpoint-here"))

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