Tracing Sources

Tracing Service supports trace data from applications, services, SDKs, and collectors that can export OpenTelemetry traces.

Note: You can send traces from any environment if your exporter can reach the service endpoint and is configured with the correct pipeline key.

Examples of supported tracing source categories include:

Application SDKs

OpenTelemetry SDKs for languages such as Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and .NET can instrument applications directly and export traces to the Tracing Service.

OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector can receive traces from multiple sources, batch them, and forward them to Tracing Service using OTLP/HTTP or OTLP/gRPC.

Service Mesh

Ingress layers, proxies, or service meshes that emit OpenTelemetry-compatible traces can forward those traces to the Tracing Service for centralized analysis.

Custom Instrumentation

Custom applications or frameworks that build OTLP trace payloads can export to the Tracing Service if they use the correct endpoint and apikey authentication.