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Documentation Grafana Agent Grafana Agent Flow Reference Components otelcol.exporter.otlphttp

otelcol.exporter.otlphttp

otelcol.exporter.otlphttp accepts telemetry data from other otelcol components and writes them over the network using the OTLP HTTP protocol.

NOTE: otelcol.exporter.otlphttp is a wrapper over the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector otlphttp exporter. Bug reports or feature requests will be redirected to the upstream repository, if necessary.

Multiple otelcol.exporter.otlphttp components can be specified by giving them different labels.

Usage

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otelcol.exporter.otlphttp "LABEL" {
  client {
    endpoint = "HOST:PORT"
  }
}

Arguments

otelcol.exporter.otlphttp supports the following arguments:

The default value depends on the endpoint field set in the required client block. If set, these arguments override the client.endpoint field for the corresponding signal.

Blocks

The following blocks are supported inside the definition of otelcol.exporter.otlphttp:

The > symbol indicates deeper levels of nesting. For example, client > tls refers to a tls block defined inside a client block.

client block

The client block configures the HTTP client used by the component.

The following arguments are supported:

tls block

The tls block configures TLS settings used for the connection to the HTTP server.

sending_queue block

The sending_queue block configures an in-memory buffer of batches before data is sent to the HTTP server.

retry_on_failure block

The retry_on_failure block configures how failed requests to the HTTP server are retried.

Exported fields

The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components:

input accepts otelcol.Consumer data for any telemetry signal (metrics, logs, or traces).

Component health

otelcol.exporter.otlphttp is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid configuration.

Debug information

otelcol.exporter.otlphttp does not expose any component-specific debug information.

Example

This example creates an exporter to send data to a locally running Grafana Tempo without TLS:

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otelcol.exporter.otlphttp "tempo" {
    client {
        endpoint = "tempo:4317"
        tls {
            insecure             = true
            insecure_skip_verify = true
        }
    }
}