Metric IngestionCopy Anchor Link

Owlpane ingests counters, gauges, and histograms over OTLP (/v1/metrics) and Prometheus remote-write compatible pipelines through the OpenTelemetry Collector.

EndpointsCopy Anchor Link

Authenticate with Authorization: Bearer owl_ing_…. See the OTLP ingest reference.

Recommended AttributesCopy Anchor Link

• service.name — Logical service identifier (e.g. checkout-api).
• deployment.environment — Environment tag (production, staging, dev).
• host.name / k8s.cluster.name — Host and cluster scoping for infrastructure series.

curl example (OTLP/HTTP JSON)Copy Anchor Link

curl -sS -X POST "https://ingest.owlpane.com/v1/metrics" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OWLPANE_INGEST_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"resourceMetrics":[{"resource":{"attributes":[{"key":"service.name","value":{"stringValue":"checkout-api"}}]},"scopeMetrics":[{"scope":{"name":"manual"},"metrics":[{"name":"checkout.orders","unit":"1","gauge":{"dataPoints":[{"asInt":"1","timeUnixNano":"1544712660000000000"}]}}]}]}]}'

OpenTelemetry Collector exporterCopy Anchor Link

exporters:
  otlphttp/owlpane:
    endpoint: ${env:OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT}
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer ${env:OWLPANE_INGEST_KEY}"

Verify it arrivedCopy Anchor Link

Open Observability → Explorer (/observability/explorer) and query the metric by name. New series are queryable within a few seconds.

Querying Metrics in DashboardsCopy Anchor Link

Imported and built-in dashboards query metrics using either PromQL-compatible expressions or SQL aggregations over metric streams. Use template variables such as $service or $namespace to filter panels dynamically.

TroubleshootingCopy Anchor Link