Distributed Tracing - Application Performance Monitoring

OpenObserve supports OpenTelemetry-compatible distributed tracing for application performance monitoring (APM) and microservices observability. Instrument your applications using OpenTelemetry SDKs or auto-instrumentation to send traces to OpenObserve for end-to-end transaction tracking and performance analysis.

HTTP

The HTTP Endpoint for sending traces to OpenObserve is

OpenObserve Cloud

https://api.openobserve.ai/api/<org_name>/v1/traces

e.g. https://api.openobserve.ai/api/default/v1/traces

Self hosted OpenObserve

https://url:5080/api/<org_name>/v1/traces

Credentials

You must send credentials via Authorization Header.

e.g.

for credentials:

userid: root@example.com
password: Complexpass#123

echo -n 'root@example.com:Complexpass#123' | base64

cm9vdEBleGFtcGxlLmNvbTpDb21wbGV4cGFzcyMxMjM=

Header should be:

Authorization: Basic cm9vdEBleGFtcGxlLmNvbTpDb21wbGV4cGFzcyMxMjM=

GRPC

OpenObserve also supports sending traces with gRPC as explained here.