azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter-py

Topics in the source

• Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter for Python
• Installation
• Environment Variables
• Authentication & Lifecycle
• When to Use
• Trace Exporter
• Metric Exporter
• Log Exporter

Low-level exporter for sending OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs to Application Insights. 🔑 Two rules apply to every code sample below: 1. Prefer DefaultAzureCredential for ingestion auth when supported. APPLICATIONINSIGHTSCONNECTIONSTRING identifies the target Application Insights resource, and credential=DefaultAzureCredential(...) provides Microsoft Entra authentication. - Local dev: DefaultAzureCredential works as-is. - Production: set AZURETOKENCREDENTIALS=prod (or AZURETOKENCREDENTIALS= ) to constrain the credential chain to production-safe credentials. 2. Providers are not context managers. Flush and shut down telemetry providers explicitly at process exit so buffers are exported deterministically. Snippets may abbreviate this setup, but production code should always follow both rules. | Scenario | Use | |----------|-----| | Quick setup, auto-instrumentation | azure-monitor-opentelemetry (distro) | | Custom OpenTelemetry pipeline | azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter (this) | | Fine-grained control over telemetry | azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter (this) | Exporters read APPLICATIONINSIGHTSCONNECTIONSTRING automatically: Use ApplicationInsightsSampler for consist

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