Tinybird OpenTelemetry Template

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data (metrics, traces, and logs) from your applications and infrastructure.

By integrating OpenTelemetry with Tinybird, you can analyze observability data in real time, build dashboards, and enrich it with other data sources.

Some common use cases for sending OpenTelemetry data to Tinybird include:

1. Centralizing metrics, traces, and logs for unified analytics.
2. Building custom dashboards and alerts on top of observability data.
3. Enriching telemetry with business or application data.

Read on to learn how to send data from OpenTelemetry to Tinybird.

Before you start

Before you connect OpenTelemetry to Tinybird, ensure:

• You have a Tinybird workspace.
• You have a Tinybird Token with append permissions to the target Data Sources.
• You are running a release version of the OpenTelemetry Collector higher than release v0.131.0.

• GitHub Releases
• Docker Hub

Tip

The Tinybird OpenTelemetry Exporter is officially available in the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository as of release v0.131.0. You can use the official OpenTelemetry Collector distributions that include the Tinybird exporter out of the box.

Use the Tinybird OpenTelemetry project template

To get started quickly, you can use the Tinybird OpenTelemetry project template. This template provides ready-to-use Data Sources and Pipes for storing and analyzing your telemetry data in Tinybird.

# select or create a new workspace
tb login

# deploy the template
tb --cloud deploy --template https://github.com/tinybirdco/tinybird-otel-template/tree/main/

Example OpenTelemetry Collector configuration

Below is an example configuration for the Tinybird OpenTelemetry Collector to export metrics, traces, and logs to Tinybird:

receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4317
      http:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4318

processors:
  batch:
    timeout: 10s
    send_batch_size: 8192

exporters:
  tinybird:
    endpoint: ${OTEL_TINYBIRD_API_HOST}         # Your Events API endpoint, e.g. https://api.us-east.aws.tinybird.co
    token: ${OTEL_TINYBIRD_TOKEN}               # Token with append permissions
    sending_queue:
      enabled: true
      queue_size: 104857600                # Total memory buffer in bytes (100 MB)
      sizer: bytes
      batch:
        flush_timeout: 5s                  # Max wait time before flushing
        min_size: 1024000                  # Min batch size: 1 MB
        max_size: 8388608                  # Max batch size: 8 MB (Events API limit is 10 MB)
    retry_on_failure:
      enabled: true
    metrics:
      sum:
        datasource: otel_metrics_sum
      histogram:
        datasource: otel_metrics_histogram
      exponential_histogram:
        datasource: otel_metrics_exponential_histogram
      gauge:
        datasource: otel_metrics_gauge
    logs:
      datasource: otel_logs
    traces:
      datasource: otel_traces

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [tinybird]

    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [tinybird]

    logs:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [tinybird]

Environment variables

• OTEL_TINYBIRD_API_HOST: The API host for your Tinybird workspace (e.g., https://api.tinybird.co).
• OTEL_TINYBIRD_TOKEN: A Tinybird token with append permissions to the target Data Sources (otel_metrics, otel_traces, otel_logs).