influxdata / influxdata/telegraf
[outputs.otlp_grpc] Support for sending Traces over GRPC in OTLP format
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Description
Use Case
I wanted to send the collected traces to Grafana Tempo for Distributed tracing when I realized that all the communication in telegraf happens over line format. I'd like to raise this feature request and also take it up for development. This plugin could help integrate Telegraf with a variety of databases for Distributed Tracing.
Expected behavior
Send Traces in OTLP format over GRPC.
Actual behavior
The opentelemetry output plugin is only configured for metrics in Influx Line format.
Additional info
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with Telegraf's opentelemetry output plugin and its current metrics and Influx Line configuration. Determine how collected traces should be represented and sent in OTLP format over gRPC to support Grafana Tempo and similar tracing systems. Done means the plugin can send traces over OTLP gRPC.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, grpc
- Domain
- observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100