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Integrating Otel Collector with Phoenix for Trace Export

·Jun 03, 2024 12:11 AM

Hi, Can I use another otel collector and add configuration in the otel_config to export traces to phoenix? I have an existing otel collector that sends application metrics and application traces to AWS Cloudwatch and XRay and I was wondering how can I fit in phoenix with that sort of setup ? Thanks

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Rahul A.
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Thanks. I send app traces (ex. http requests) to an otel collector which then exports it to destination like XRay and Cloudwatch( image attached for reference). That’s the kind of setup I have. Is it possible for an existing collector (yellow box) pass on traces to phoenix using the exporter configuration (by adding an exporter in the otel-config). Thanks
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Mikyo
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Rahul you can point any exporter you’d like to phoenix. It acts like any other OTel backend. But it’s definitely designed for querying and annotations via LLM judges so you might consider only sending generative traces to it. It does fine with normal traces but that might be overkill
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Rahul A.
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Thanks. I will give it a shot and report back. I recall that things did not work for me few months ago but understand lot has changed since then. Great work here.
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Rahul A.
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I could be wrong but it won't work with other otel collectors. We need to have an exporter for phoenix similar to other exporters out here https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter
Mikyo
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Hey Rahul A. - Phoenix just speaks plain OTLP (otel protocol) so it doesn't need any custom exporter like the other backends. You can export from your OTLP collector or directly from the instrumentation like so (https://github.com/Arize-ai/openinference/blob/85d6c0a3e148fcc50018873e06a9dbd38f5d5b06/python/examples/llama-index/backend/instrument.py#L14)
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