I m wondering does the signoz flavored OTEL collector image

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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

nitya-signoz · Answer

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

Alex Grönholm · Answer

I m trying to migrate our app from Datadog to an OTEL based solution that we could deploy ourselves

Alex Grönholm · Answer

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

nitya-signoz · Answer

Cool got it slightly smiling face

nitya-signoz · Answer

Let us know if you face any issues will be happy to help

Alex Grönholm · Answer

thanks I am wondering how to view metrics with SignOz I don t see a section for metrics on the left hand panel

nitya-signoz · Answer

You can view the metrics on the dashboards page dashboards gt new dashboard gt new panel gt you will be able to query your metrics

Alex Grönholm · Answer

oh okay

Alex Grönholm · Answer

one final Q can signoz correlate log entries with traces based on the trace span IDs once parsed correctly

nitya-signoz · Answer

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>

Alex Grönholm · Answer

gotcha thank you I ll subscribe to that issue

Alex Grönholm · Answer

what I m looking for mostly is the ability to see the related logs from the trace view

Alex Grönholm · Answer

DD has this

nitya-signoz · Answer

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

Alex Grönholm · Answer

sure I can do that

Alex Grönholm · Answer

Alex Grönholm · Answer

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