René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add HTTP OTLP Trace Exporter Support for Auto Instrumentation","articleBody":"### Describe the Problem\n\nCurrently, the SDK's telemetry options may not fully support exporting OTLP traces over HTTP. [MLflow](https://mlflow.org/docs/latest/genai/tracing/opentelemetry/ingest) (and several other observability backends) has standardised on receiving OpenTelemetry traces via OTLP/HTTP rather than gRPC. Without this, users are unable to pipe traces directly from their SAP Cloud SDK instrumented agents into MLflow for experiment tracking and monitoring.\n\n### Propose a Solution\n\nI propose adding a new exporter configuration that utilizes the opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http package. This will be configurable using the Environment Variable `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL` which is part of the [OpenTelemetry Exporter Documentation](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/languages/sdk-configuration/otlp-exporter/#otel_exporter_otlp_protocol).\n\n### Describe Alternatives\n\n_No response_\n\n### Affected Development Phase\n\nDevelopment\n\n### Impact\n\nInconvenience\n\n### Timeline\n\n_No response_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/hoperawr","@type":"Person","name":"hoperawr"},"datePublished":"2026-03-25T07:05:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/17/cloud-sdk-python/issues/17"}