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crystal nexus Oct 1, 2025, 10:21 PM

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How can I expose dagger to an otel collector running outside dagger?

acoustic flax Oct 2, 2025, 12:05 AM

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crystal nexus How can I expose dagger to an otel collector running outside dagger?

by setting the standard OTEL exporter variables, Dagger will just use those. https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/sdk-configuration/otlp-exporter/

OpenTelemetry

OTLP Exporter Configuration

Endpoint Configuration The following environment variables let you configure an OTLP/gRPC or OTLP/HTTP endpoint for your traces, metrics, and logs.
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT A base endpoint URL for any signal type, with an optionally-specified port number. Helpful for when you’re sending more than one signal to the same endpoint and want one...

crystal nexus Oct 2, 2025, 12:59 AM

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so I set OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT where the dagger client is running? Let me try.

acoustic flax Oct 2, 2025, 1:18 AM

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crystal nexus so I set `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT` where the dagger *client* is running? Let...

yep. That should be it

fast sentinel Oct 6, 2025, 4:03 PM

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acoustic flax yep. That should be it

Appreciate this info, but it seems not to be working for me. I'm running a local collector, but export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4318; dagger call ... does not result in any traces.

acoustic flax Oct 6, 2025, 4:14 PM

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fast sentinel Appreciate this info, but it seems not to be working for me. I'm running a local...

have you checked your collector logs? I'm confident this works because I use it regularly to send traces to some third-party collectors

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