Authentication without extension

This section describes how you can authenticate your third-party observability platform without an extension.

How you authenticate depends on your third-party observability platform. For specific field requirements, see the OpenTelemetry exporter documentation.

Inline exporter configuration: Some of the exporters include credential fields. Specify the credentials directly in the exporter.yaml file. For example,

# Datadog — API key inline
datadog/partner:
  api:
    key: "<datadog-api-key>"
    site: "datadoghq.com"

# Splunk HEC — token inline
splunk_hec/partner:
  endpoint: "https://splunk.example.com:8088/services/collector"
  token: "<hec-token>"

# Prometheus remote write — bearer token / custom header inline
prometheusremotewrite/partner:
  endpoint: "https://receive.example.com/api/v1/receive"
  headers:
    Authorization: "Bearer <token>"

You must export and verify. To export and verify, see the Exporting and verifying documentation.