Send data to multiple backends

The following configuration example shows how to configure a Collector instance to send telemetry data to multiple backends at the same time.

Prerequisites

Demo configuration

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:
      http:

exporters:
  otlphttp/dynatrace:
    endpoint: ${env:DT_ENDPOINT}
    headers:
      Authorization: "Api-Token ${env:DT_API_TOKEN}"
  otlp/coldstorage:
    endpoint: my.coldstorage.example:4317

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp/dynatrace, otlp/coldstorage]
    metrics:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp/dynatrace, otlp/coldstorage]
    logs:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [otlphttp/dynatrace, otlp/coldstorage]

Components

For our configuration, we configure the following components.

Receiver

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

Exporter

Under exporters, we specify the following exporter instances for our backends.

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

Service pipeline

Under service, we eventually assemble our receiver and exporter objects into pipelines, which accept any OTLP request (HTTP and gRPC) and forward it to the configured backends, using the configured exporters.

Limits and limitations

Data is ingested using the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) via the Dynatrace OTLP APIs and is subject to the API's limits and restrictions. For more information see: