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Jaegerthrifthttp Exporter

Status Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

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Overview

Status
Stabilitydeprecated
Supported pipeline typestraces
Distributionscontrib
This exporter is being deprecated and will be removed in July 2023 as Jaeger support OTLP directly. This exporter supports sending trace data to Jaeger over Thrift HTTP. WARNING: The Jaeger gRPC Exporter is the recommended one for exporting traces from an OpenTelemetry Collector to Jaeger. This Jaeger Thrift Exporter should only be used to export traces to a Jaeger Collector that is unable to expose the gRPC API.

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Configuration

The following settings are required:
  • endpoint (no default): target to which the exporter is going to send Jaeger trace data, using the Thrift HTTP protocol.
The following settings can be optionally configured:
  • timeout (default = 5s): the maximum time to wait for a HTTP request to complete
  • headers (no default): headers to be added to the HTTP request
Example: 
exporters:
  jaeger_thrift:
    endpoint: "http://jaeger.example.com/api/traces"
    timeout: 2s
    headers:
      added-entry: "added value"
      dot.test: test
The full list of settings exposed for this exporter are documented here with detailed sample configurations here. This exporter also offers proxy support as documented here.

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Configuration

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Example Configuration

jaeger_thrift:
  endpoint: "http://jaeger.example:14268/api/traces"
jaeger_thrift/2:
  endpoint: "http://jaeger.example.com/api/traces"
  timeout: 2s
  headers:
    added-entry: "added value"
    dot.test: test
Last generated: 2026-04-14