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Alex Grönholm

02/13/2023, 4:02 PM
I'm wondering: does the signoz flavored OTEL collector image contain the "contrib" stuff too? I need to export my traces and metrics to Datadog too.
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nitya-signoz

02/13/2023, 4:12 PM
Yes, signoz otel collector is on top of otel “contrib” repo. Btw what’s your use case for sending to signoz and datadog using signoz otel collector?
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Alex Grönholm

02/13/2023, 4:12 PM
I'm trying to migrate our app from Datadog to an OTEL based solution that we could deploy ourselves
but until we are fully set up with an alternative, I want to send the data to DD too since we rely on that for troubleshooting the app right now
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nitya-signoz

02/13/2023, 4:14 PM
Cool, got it 🙂
Let us know if you face any issues, will be happy to help.
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Alex Grönholm

02/13/2023, 4:15 PM
thanks! I am wondering how to view metrics with SignOz. I don't see a section for metrics on the left hand panel.
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nitya-signoz

02/13/2023, 4:16 PM
You can view the metrics on the dashboards page. dashboards -> new dashboard -> new panel -> you will be able to query your metrics.
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Alex Grönholm

02/13/2023, 4:16 PM
oh, okay
one final Q: can signoz correlate log entries with traces based on the trace/span IDs (once parsed correctly)?
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nitya-signoz

02/13/2023, 4:20 PM
Once you parse the traceId, spanId in your logs you will be able to filter them using the filters available. But use cases likes going from logs to traces using the UI is currently in roadmap. https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/issues/1799
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Alex Grönholm

02/13/2023, 4:20 PM
gotcha, thank you! I'll subscribe to that issue.
what I'm looking for mostly is the ability to see the related logs from the trace view
DD has this
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nitya-signoz

02/13/2023, 4:22 PM
Got it, makes sense. Would you like to create an issue for this, I can link it to this so that we can pick both together.
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Alex Grönholm

02/13/2023, 4:22 PM
sure, I can do that
Hi! to resume our conversation about Datadog, I do see that the
signoz-k8s-infra-otel-agent
pods do use the
otel/opentelemetry-contrib
image, but those can't (and shouldn't) be configured from the Helm chart, right? The
signoz/signoz-otel-collector
image is the one that can be configured, but that doesn't contain the code for the
datadog
exporter (I tried configuring it but it says it's not a valid exporter).