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Native OpenTelemetry for Go services: gin middleware, OTLP exporters, zero vendor lock-in.

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Three steps

Standard OpenTelemetry, pointed at us.

No proprietary agent, no vendor SDK required on the server. If your service already exports OTLP, step two is the whole integration.

  1. STEP 1
    Create a project

    Sign up, create a project, and copy its ingest token. Nothing to install on our side.

  2. STEP 2
    Point your exporter at us

    Set OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT to https://ingest.tracepath.dev/api/otel and OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS to "Authorization=Bearer <token>". If you already emit OpenTelemetry, that is the whole integration.

  3. STEP 3
    Or wire the SDK explicitly

    Prefer code over environment variables? Configure the OTLP exporters yourself, exactly as in the sample below. Standard OpenTelemetry packages only — nothing TracePath-specific.

Real code

A working main.go.

Standard OpenTelemetry packages only — this is the actual shape of a Go integration against TracePath.

headers := map[string]string{"Authorization": "Bearer " + token}

traceExporter, err := otlptracehttp.New(ctx,
  otlptracehttp.WithEndpoint("ingest.tracepath.dev"),
  otlptracehttp.WithURLPath("/api/otel/v1/traces"),
  otlptracehttp.WithHeaders(headers),
)
if err != nil {
  return err
}

tp := sdktrace.NewTracerProvider(
  sdktrace.WithBatcher(traceExporter),
  sdktrace.WithResource(resource.NewWithAttributes(
    semconv.SchemaURL,
    semconv.ServiceName("my-go-service"),
  )),
)
otel.SetTracerProvider(tp)

r := gin.New()
r.Use(otelgin.Middleware("my-go-service"))

Source: examples/devtesting-embedded/main.go in our examples.

What you get

Built for Go.

otelgin / otelchi middleware for request spans

Logs and metrics via the OpenTelemetry log and metric SDKs

Exception capture with panic recovery

Works behind any OpenTelemetry Collector you already run

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