Transform OTLP gRPC

The following configuration example shows how you would configure a Collector instance to transform a gRPC OTLP request to its HTTP counterpart.

Demo configuration

yaml
receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:

exporters:
  otlphttp:
    endpoint: $DT_ENDPOINT/api/v2/otlp
    headers:
      Authorization: "Api-Token $DT_API_TOKEN"

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp]
    metrics:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp]
    logs:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp]

Prerequisites

At least Core distribution
The API URL of your Dynatrace environment
An API token with the relevant access scope

Components

For our configuration, we configure the following components.

Receiver

Under receivers, we specify the gRPC otlp receiver as active receiver component for our Collector instance.

Exporter

Under exporters, we specify the default otlphttp exporter and configure it with our Dynatrace API URL and the required authentication token.

For this purpose, we set the following two environment variables and reference them in the configuration values for endpoint and Authorization.

DT_ENDPOINT contains the base URL of your ActiveGate (for example, https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com)
DT_API_TOKEN contains the API token

Service pipeline

Under service, we eventually assemble our receiver and exporter objects into pipelines, which explictly accept gRPC requests and forward them on HTTP to Dynatrace.