Generic forwarding
Generic forwarding allows asynchronous replication of ingested traces. The distributor writes received spans to both the ingester and defined endpoints, if enabled. This feature works in a “best-effort” manner, meaning that no retries happen if an error occurs during replication.
Warning: Generic forwarding does not work retroactively. Once enabled, the distributor only replicates freshly ingested spans.
Configure generic forwarding
Enabling generic forwarding requires the configuration of the distributor
and overrides
.
First, define a list of forwarders in the
distributor
section. Each forwarder must specify a uniquename
, supportedbackend
, and backend-specific configuration.Second, reference these forwarders in the
overrides
section. This allows for fine-grained control over forwarding and makes it possible to enable this feature globally or on a per-tenant basis.
For a detailed view of all the config options for the generic forwarding feature, please refer to distributor and overrides configuration pages.
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