Dynatrace configuration of OTLP exporter
Configure the OTLP trace exporter for Dynatrace
This tracing exporter is a configuration of the OTLP exporter to use with Dynatrace.
For general tracing configuration, refer to Router Tracing Configuration.
Dynatrace configuration
To configure the router:
Enable the OTLP exporter
Set the
protocolashttp; Dynatrace doesn't currently supportgrpcProvide your Dynatrace endpoint
Provide your Dynatrace API token in the
Authorizationheader; the header should start withApi-tokenand then your Dynatrace token
YAML
router.yaml
1telemetry:
2 exporters:
3 tracing:
4 otlp:
5 enabled: true
6 # Endpoint for your region.
7 endpoint: <dynatrace-endpoint>
8 protocol: http
9 http:
10 headers:
11 Authorization: Api-Token <dynatrace-token>note
You must specify
protocol: http or the exporter will fail to connect to Dynatrace. Additionally, if your Dynatrace endpoint does not contain a port, you must append :443 to the endpoint. For example: https://subdomain.live.dynatrace.com:443/api/v2/otlp/v1/traces.For more details about Dynatrace configuration, see Dynatrace's docs on OpenTelemetry configuration.