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Overview

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry native observability solutions that helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot issues. It provides features for monitoring and analyzing traces, metrics, and logs as well as support for other CNCF projects like Perses.

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Environment Variables

Set up the following environment variables to enable OpenTelemetry tracing and send traces to Dash0:

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="https://ingress.<region>.aws.dash0.com"
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="Authentication=Bearer <your-accces-token>"
OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES=service.name=<your-service-name>"
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL="http"

For the OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL, both grpc and http protocols are supported. Choose the one that correlates to the chosen endpoint.