> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://otel.fyi/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Otlpjson

> OpenTelemetry connector for Otlpjson

# Otlpjson Connector

![Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-alpha-red)

**Available in:** `contrib`, `k8s`

**Maintainers:** [@ChrsMark](https://github.com/ChrsMark)

**Source:** [opentelemetry-collector-contrib](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/connector/otlpjsonconnector)

## Overview

> **Deprecation Notice:** The component type has been renamed from `otlpjson` to `otlp_json`
> to follow the OpenTelemetry snake\_case naming convention.
> The old name `otlpjson` still works but is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
> Please update your configuration to use `otlp_json`.

Allows to extract otlpjson data from incoming Logs and specifically the `Body` field.
The data is written in
[Protobuf JSON
encoding](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json)
using [OpenTelemetry
protocol](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto).

## Configuration

#### Configuration Example:

```yaml theme={null}
receivers:
  file_log:
    include:
      - /var/log/foo.log

exporters:
  debug:

connectors:
  # Deprecated (still works):
  # otlpjson:
  # New name:
  otlp_json:

service:
  pipelines:
    logs/raw:
      receivers: [file_log]
      exporters: [otlpjson]
    metrics/otlp:
      receivers: [otlpjson]
      exporters: [debug]
    logs/otlp:
      receivers: [otlpjson]
      exporters: [debug]
    traces/otlp:
      receivers: [otlpjson]
      exporters: [debug]
```

[Connectors README]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/connector/README.md

[Exporter Pipeline Type]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/connector/README.md#exporter-pipeline-type

[Receiver Pipeline Type]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/connector/README.md#receiver-pipeline-type

[contrib]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/tree/main/distributions/otelcol-contrib

## Configuration

### Example Configuration

```yaml theme={null}
```

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*Last generated: 2026-07-06*