Google Cloud’s engineers have enabled Google Cloud Observability, and specifically Cloud Trace, to support the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) ingest for near-direct and more vendor-neutral ingestion of trace data.
Now that users can send their trace data using OTLP via the Telemetry (OTLP) API, Google Cloud recommends this approach in many cases, including for users who anticipate high volumes of trace data when paired with the OpenTelemetry Collector. Google’s adoption and integration of the protocol has involved significant engineering…








