OpenTelemetry Trace Format

SkyWalking can receive traces from Traces in OTLP format and convert them to Zipkin Trace format eventually. For data analysis and queries related to Zipkin Trace, please refer to the relevant documentation.

OTLP Trace handler references the Zipkin Exporter in the OpenTelemetry Collector to convert the data format.

Set up backend receiver

1. Make sure to enable otlp-traces handler in OTLP receiver of application.yml.

receiver-otel:
  selector: default
  default:
    enabledHandlers: otlp-traces

2. Make sure to enable zipkin receiver and zipkin query in application.yml for config the zipkin.

Setup Query and Lens UI

Please read deploy Lens UI documentation for query OTLP traces.