Urls for sending OpenTelemetry traces to grafana-agent urls

Question

When sending traces to tempo I use http://<tempo ip>:4318/v1/traces, what is the path for sending traces to grafana-agent. I see nothing in the docs.

Answer 1

The endpoint is the same, i.e. http://<grfana agent ip>:4318/v1/traces - but the grafana agent has to be configured for OpenTelemetry as described in Grafana Agent configuration for OpenTelemetry.

You can also use the OpenTelemetry integration for Grafana Cloud, which will generate a ready-to-use Grafana agent configuration for you.