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Native OpenTelemetry Tracing

Learn how to export traces to highlight.io via one of the OpenTelemetry SDKs.
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Export your traces to the highlight.io collector.

We host an OpenTelemetry collector endpoint at https://otel.highlight.io:4318/v1/traces. Configure your OpenTelemetry SDK to send traces via OTLP HTTPS to this endpoint. Your Highlight Project ID should be included as an attribute with the highlight.project_id key. This configuration will depend on which SDK you use in your app.

import { NodeSDK } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-node' import { OTLPTraceExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http'; import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources' import type { Attributes } from '@opentelemetry/api' const attributes: Attributes = { 'highlight.project_id': '<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>' } const sdk = new NodeSDK({ resource: new Resource(attributes), traceExporter: new OTLPTraceExporter({ url: 'https://otel.highlight.io:4318/v1/traces' }) }); sdk.start();
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Verify your backend traces are being recorded.

Visit the highlight traces portal and check that backend traces are coming in.