Method: v1.traces.post

Send trace data to your project by using the Telemetry (OTLP) API, which implements the OpenTelemetry Line Protocol. For information about this API, see v1.traces overview.

HTTP request

Choose a location:

global africa-south1 asia-east1 asia-east2 asia-northeast1 asia-northeast2 asia-northeast3 asia-south1 asia-south2 asia-southeast1 asia-southeast2 asia-southeast3 australia-southeast1 australia-southeast2 europe-central2 europe-north1 europe-north2 europe-north3 europe-southwest1 europe-west1 europe-west10 europe-west12 europe-west2 europe-west3 europe-west4 europe-west6 europe-west8 europe-west9 me-central1 me-central2 me-west1 northamerica-northeast1 northamerica-northeast2 northamerica-south1 southamerica-east1 southamerica-west1 us-central1 us-east1 us-east4 us-east5 us-south1 us-west1 us-west2 us-west3 us-west4

GET https://telemetry.googleapis.com/v1/traces

The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of ExportTraceServiceRequest. For information about this structure, see trace_service.proto and trace.proto.

If you add attributes to a Span, then make sure you follow OpenTelemetry's instructions. For more information, see Common specification concepts: Attribute.

For information about sending requests and about the OTLP protocol, see Protocol Details.

Response body

The response body contains an instance of ExportTraceServiceResponse. For information about this structure, see the trace_service.proto.

The response can indicate full success, partial success, or failure. For more information, see OTLP/gRPC Response.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.