Declarative Configuration Example

This example demonstrates how to use declarative configuration to configure the OpenTelemetry SDK using a YAML configuration file as defined in opentelemetry-configuration.

The configuration file is located at otel-sdk-config.yaml.

How to Run

Prerequisites

• Java 17 or higher is required to run Gradle and build this example
• Java 8 or higher may be used to run the example once it has been built

Run

export OTEL_EXPERIMENTAL_CONFIG_FILE=$(pwd)/otel-sdk-config.yaml
../gradlew run

Observe how data is printed to the console as configured in otel-sdk-config.yaml.

For use with the OpenTelemetry Java Agent, see Java Agent declarative configuration.