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# Trace Reporters

Flink allows reporting traces to external systems.
For more information about Flink's tracing system go to the [tracing system documentation]({{< ref "docs/ops/traces" >}}).

Traces can be exposed to an external system by configuring one or several reporters in [Flink configuration file]({{< ref "docs/deployment/config#flink-configuration-file" >}}). These
reporters will be instantiated on each job and task manager when they are started.

Below is a list of parameters that are generally applicable to all reporters.
All properties are configured by setting `traces.reporter.<reporter_name>.<property>` in the configuration.
Reporters may additionally offer implementation-specific parameters, which are documented in the respective reporter's section. 

{{< include_reporter_config "layouts/shortcodes/generated/trace_reporters_section.html" >}}

All reporter configurations must contain the `factory.class` property.

Example reporter configuration that specifies multiple reporters:

```yaml
traces.reporters: otel,my_other_otel

traces.reporter.otel.factory.class: org.apache.flink.traces.otel.OpenTelemetryTraceReporterFactory
traces.reporter.otel.exporter.endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:1337
traces.reporter.otel.scope.variables.additional: region:eu-west-1,environment:local,flink_runtime:1.17.1

traces.reporter.my_other_otel.factory.class: org.apache.flink.common.metrics.OpenTelemetryTraceReporterFactory
traces.reporter.my_other_otel.exporter.endpoint: http://196.168.0.1:31337
```

**Important:** The jar containing the reporter must be accessible when Flink is started.
 Reporters are loaded as [plugins]({{< ref "docs/deployment/filesystems/plugins" >}}).
 All reporters documented on this page are available by default.

You can write your own `Reporter` by implementing the `org.apache.flink.traces.reporter.TraceReporter` and `org.apache.flink.traces.reporter.TraceReporterFactory` interfaces.
Be careful that all the method must not block for a significant amount of time, and any reporter needing more time should instead run the operation asynchronously.

## Reporters

The following sections list the supported reporters.

### OpenTelemetry
#### (org.apache.flink.traces.otel.OpenTelemetryTraceReporterFactory)

`OpenTelemetryTraceReporterFactory` currently supports only gRPC.

Parameters:

{{< include_reporter_config "layouts/shortcodes/generated/open_telemetry_reporter_configuration.html" >}}

Example configuration:

```yaml
traces.reporter.otel.factory.class: org.apache.flink.metrics.otel.OpenTelemetryTraceReporterFactory
traces.reporter.otel.exporter.endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:1337
```

### Slf4j
#### (org.apache.flink.traces.slf4j.Slf4jTraceReporter)

Example configuration:

```yaml
traces.reporter.slf4j.factory.class: org.apache.flink.traces.slf4j.Slf4jTraceReporterFactory
```
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