Arize Phoenix is not an OpenTelemetry Collector as defined by the official OpenTelemetry Collector project (https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/), but it acts as an OTLP-compatible trace collector. Phoenix receives traces over the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) via HTTP or gRPC, similar to an OTel collector, but it is not a drop-in replacement for the OpenTelemetry Collector binary and does not support the full range of OTel Collector features or pipelines. According to the Phoenix documentation, Phoenix is designed to accept traces from OTel-instrumented applications and can be used as a backend for OpenTelemetry traces.Would you like more detail on the differences or integration patterns?Sources:
- https://arize-ai.slack.com/archives/C04R3GXC8HK/p1717373476.800519
- https://github.com/Arize-ai/openinference/blob/main/python/README.md
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Hi Zhuyi X. thanks for the question! The bot is correct here, we do accept Otel traces generally but the UI is primarily designed to render open inference traces and we can鈥檛 guarantee how normal traces will appear once ingested
