# OTLP HTTP Exporter | Status | | | ------------- |-----------| | Stability | [alpha]: profiles | | | [stable]: traces, metrics, logs | | Distributions | [core], [contrib], [k8s], [otlp] | | Issues | [](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aexporter%2Fotlphttp) [](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+label%3Aexporter%2Fotlphttp) | [alpha]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/component-stability.md#alpha [stable]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/docs/component-stability.md#stable [core]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol [contrib]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-contrib [k8s]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-k8s [otlp]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-otlp The `otlp_http` exporter sends logs, metrics, profiles and traces via HTTP using [OTLP]( https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/blob/main/docs/specification.md) format. The `otlphttp` deprecated alias exists for the component name. It will be removed in a future version. If you use the deprecated alias `otlphttp` in your configuration, change it to `otlp_http`. The following settings are required: - `endpoint` (no default): The target base URL to send data to (e.g.: https://example.com:4318). To send each signal a corresponding path will be added to this base URL, i.e. for traces "/v1/traces" will appended, for metrics "/v1/metrics" will be appended, for logs "/v1/logs" will be appended. The following settings can be optionally configured: - `traces_endpoint` (no default): The target URL to send trace data to (e.g.: https://example.com:4318/v1/traces). If this setting is present the `endpoint` setting is ignored for traces. - `metrics_endpoint` (no default): The target URL to send metric data to (e.g.: https://example.com:4318/v1/metrics). If this setting is present the `endpoint` setting is ignored for metrics. - `logs_endpoint` (no default): The target URL to send log data to (e.g.: https://example.com:4318/v1/logs). - `profiles_endpoint` (no default): The target URL to send profile data to (e.g.: https://example.com:4318/v1development/profiles). If this setting is present the `endpoint` setting is ignored for logs. - `tls`: see [TLS Configuration Settings](../../config/configtls/README.md) for the full set of available options. - `timeout` (default = 30s): HTTP request time limit. For details see https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Client - `read_buffer_size` (default = 0): ReadBufferSize for HTTP client. - `write_buffer_size` (default = 512 * 1024): WriteBufferSize for HTTP client. - `encoding` (default = proto): The encoding to use for the messages (valid options: `proto`, `json`) - `retry_on_failure`: see [Retry on Failure](../exporterhelper/README.md#retry-on-failure) for the full set of available options. - `sending_queue`: see [Sending Queue](../exporterhelper/README.md#sending-queue) for the full set of available options. Example: ```yaml exporters: otlp_http: endpoint: https://example.com:4318 ``` By default `gzip` compression is enabled. See [compression comparison](../../config/configgrpc/README.md#compression-comparison) for details benchmark information. To disable, configure as follows: ```yaml exporters: otlp_http: ... compression: none ``` By default `proto` encoding is used, to change the content encoding of the message configure it as follows: ```yaml exporters: otlp_http: ... encoding: json ``` The full list of settings exposed for this exporter are documented [here](./config.go) with detailed sample configurations [here](./testdata/config.yaml).