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Sending observability data directly to an APM system

Flow observability can be configured to send data directly to an APM system that supports direct OTLP ingestion.

About this worked example

This worked example illustrates the steps involved in sending observability data directly to an APM system that supports direct OTLP ingestion. Honeycomb is used as the APM vendor in this example, although your Organization may use a different APM system.

Setting up the APM system (Honeycomb)

The Honeycomb APM system is set up and configured as follows:

  • A Honeycomb account is created and signed into.

  • The Honeycomb account API key is copied as this will be required when setting the OTLP headers option.

Setting up observability in Flow

Once the Honeycomb APM system is set up and ready to receive data, observability can be enabled in a tenant.

  1. Sign in to as an Administrator.

  2. Navigate to the Observability section on the Tenant page.

  3. OTLP endpoint: In this example, the Honeycomb endpoint is entered as the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint to which tenant flow(s) data should be sent:

  4. OTLP headers: In this example, optional headers are sent with the data, including the API key authentication credentials copied when setting up Honeycomb, and the name of the dataset to create in Honeycomb.

    • x-honeycomb-team=fe78e7f56b941c2f6ec67ae112ff64fg,x-honeycomb-dataset=Flow

  5. Save Settings is clicked to apply the setting, enabling observability data for the tenant to be sent to Honeycomb.

Viewing flow runtime data in Honeycomb

In this example, a few flows are run and interacted with, in order to check that Honeycomb is receiving flow runtime data.

The 'Flow' dataset has been created in Honeycomb, which verifies that data is being received:

The dataset in Honeycomb

This dataset can then be queried to view runtime observability data for flows in the tenant:

Querying the dataset in Honeycomb

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