Ingest OpenTelemetry traces

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Ingestion limits

The following limitations apply to OpenTelemetry trace ingest requests and ingested spans.

Type
Limit
Description
Span end time
60 minutes in the past
The minimum value of the span end timestamp at time of ingestion
Span end time
10 minutes in the future
The maximum value of the span end timestamp at time of ingestion
Number of span attributes
1281
The maximum number of span attributes per span
Number of span events
1281
The maximum number of events per span
Number of event attributes
1281
The maximum number of attributes per span event
Number of span links
1281
The maximum number of links per span
Number of link attributes
1281
The maximum number of attributes per span link
Request size
8 MB
The maximum size of an OTLP request for trace ingest to an ActiveGate (uncompressed data)
Request size (gzip)
8 MB
The maximum size of an OTLP request for trace ingest to an ActiveGate (compressed data)
1

Typical limit of the OpenTelemetry SDK. Not limited by Dynatrace.

Related tags
Application Observability