How to use OpenTelemetry with OneAgent

[hfb11]

Hi, we have a couple of microservices developt in Python. We are using OneAgent SDK to log our telemetry data and send it to Dynatrace. Now we want to switch to OpenTelemetry SDK. But we still want to continue using the OneAgent ClIent to collect our data and send it to Dynatrace. How do I have to log the data in OpenTelemetry so that the OneAgent Client also can collect it?

[owais]

OpenTelemetry Python supports the following formats/protocols: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/tree/main/exporter

If OneAgent supports one of these protocols, you can export to it directly from your Python application. Another option would be to export from your Python applications to the OpenTelemetry Collector and use it's dynatrace exporter to forward the data to Dynatrace.

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/dynatraceexporter

[owais]

It looks like Collector's Dynatrace exporter only supports metrics. I'd suggest to bring this up to Dynatrace support :)

[z1c0]

Hi @hfb11,
frankly, sharing data between OpenTelemetry Python and the OneAgent SDK will not be easy.
But let's look into the details of your use case in https://github.com/Dynatrace/OneAgent-SDK-for-Python.

[hfb11]

Hi @hfb11, frankly, sharing data between OpenTelemetry Python and the OneAgent SDK will not be easy. But let's look into the details of your use case in https://github.com/Dynatrace/OneAgent-SDK-for-Python.

As I wrote above we still using OneAgent SDK but we wanted to switch to OpenTelemetry.

[hfb11]

It looks like Collector's Dynatrace exporter only supports metrics. I'd suggest to bring this up to Dynatrace support :)

Thank you. I guess I have to go this route :D