6. Routing Data
10 minutesThe Routing Connector in OpenTelemetry is a powerful feature that allows you to direct data (traces, metrics, or logs) to different pipelines/destinations based on specific criteria. This is especially useful in scenarios where you want to apply different processing or exporting logic to subsets of your telemetry data.
For example, you might want to send production data to one exporter while directing test or development data to another. Similarly, you could route certain spans based on their attributes, such as service name, environment, or span name, to apply custom processing or storage logic.
Exercise
Important
Change ALL terminal windows to the 6-routing-data directory and run the clear command.
Copy *.yaml from the 5-transform-data directory into 6-routing-data. Your updated directory structure will now look like this:
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├── agent.yaml
└── gateway.yamlNext, we will configure the routing connector and the respective pipelines.