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OpenTelemetry

An input plugin to ingest OTLP Logs, Metrics, and Traces
The OpenTelemetry plugin allows you to ingest telemetry data as per the OTLP specification, from various OpenTelemetry exporters, the OpenTelemetry Collector, or Fluent Bit's OpenTelemetry output plugin.

Configuration

Key
Description
default
listen
The address to listen on
0.0.0.0
port
The port for Fluent Bit to listen on
4318
tag_key
Specify the key name to overwrite a tag. If set, the tag will be overwritten by a value of the key.
raw_traces
Route trace data as a log message
false
buffer_max_size
Specify the maximum buffer size in KB to receive a JSON message.
4M
buffer_chunk_size
This sets the chunk size for incoming incoming JSON messages. These chunks are then stored/managed in the space available by buffer_max_size.
512K
successful_response_code
It allows to set successful response code. 200, 201 and 204 are supported.
201
Important note: Raw traces means that any data forwarded to the traces endpoint (/v1/traces) will be packed and forwarded as a log message, and will NOT be processed by Fluent Bit. The traces endpoint by default expects a valid protobuf encoded payload, but you can set the raw_traces option in case you want to get trace telemetry data to any of Fluent Bit's supported outputs.

Getting started

The OpenTelemetry plugin currently supports the following telemetry data types:
Type
HTTP/JSON
HTTP/Protobuf
Logs
Stable
Stable
Metrics
Unimplemented
Stable
Traces
Unimplemented
Stable
A sample config file to get started will look something like the following:
[INPUT]
name opentelemetry
listen 127.0.0.1
port 4318
[OUTPUT]
name stdout
match *
With the above configuration, Fluent Bit will listen on port 4318 for data. You can now send telemetry data to the endpoints /v1/metrics, /v1/traces, and /v1/logs for metrics, traces, and logs respectively.
A sample curl request to POST json encoded log data would be:
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request POST --data '{"resourceLogs":[{"resource":{},"scopeLogs":[{"scope":{},"logRecords":[{"timeUnixNano":"1660296023390371588","body":{"stringValue":"{\"message\":\"dummy\"}"},"traceId":"","spanId":""}]}]}]}' http://0.0.0.0:4318/v1/logs
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