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OTLP: The OpenTelemetry Protocol

OpenTelemetry is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and tools to help you analyze your software’s performance and behavior. With OpenTelemety you can instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data including metrics, logs, and traces.

OpenTelemetry is gaining widespread industry adoption and Grafana Labs supports the ingestion of all metrics, logs, and traces through OTLP, the OpenTelemetry Protocol, into Grafana Cloud.

Select a topic to get started sending data using OTLP:

  1. Grafana Cloud OpenTelemetry integration: the OpenTelemetry Grafana Could integration is the quickest way to get started with Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry.
  2. Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint: send data via the OpenTelemetry Protocol to the Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint from an OpenTelemetry Collector like Grafana Alloy or directly from an application or service.
  3. Grafana Cloud Application Observability: application performance monitoring in Grafana Cloud to detect anomalies, identify root causes, and fix problems in services and applications.

OTLP format consideration

OpenTelemetry doesn’t specify a data storage approach and leaves it to the observability backend to implement. Refer to the OTLP format considerations documentation to learn how Grafana Cloud converts data sent via OTLP to be compatible with Grafana databases.