OTLP Export

Ultra supports exporting traces and metrics via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) to external observability backends like Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, Datadog, and others.

Configuration

Enable OTLP export in your Ultra config:

observability:
  enabled: true
  endpoint: "localhost:4317"    # OTLP gRPC endpoint
  service_name: "ultra"         # Service name in traces

Field	Type	Default	Description
`enabled`	bool	`false`	Enable OTLP telemetry export
`endpoint`	string	`""`	OTLP gRPC endpoint
`service_name`	string	`"ultra"`	Service name for telemetry

Backend Examples

Jaeger

Run Jaeger locally and point Ultra to it:

# Start Jaeger with OTLP support
docker run -d --name jaeger \
  -p 4317:4317 \
  -p 16686:16686 \
  jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest

observability:
  enabled: true
  endpoint: "localhost:4317"

View traces at http://localhost:16686.

Grafana Tempo

observability:
  enabled: true
  endpoint: "tempo.example.com:4317"
  service_name: "ultra-production"

Datadog

Use the Datadog OTLP ingest endpoint:

observability:
  enabled: true
  endpoint: "localhost:4317"  # Datadog Agent OTLP port

Ensure your Datadog Agent is configured with OTLP ingest enabled.

Honeycomb

observability:
  enabled: true
  endpoint: "api.honeycomb.io:443"

What Gets Exported

Traces — OpenTelemetry spans for every MCP operation with W3C Trace Context IDs
Metrics — Request counts, latency histograms, error rates

Dual Storage

OTLP export works alongside local storage. When enabled, Ultra writes to both:

Local SQLite — Always available for the dashboard and local inspection
OTLP endpoint — Exported to your chosen backend

This means you get the Ultra dashboard locally plus your existing observability stack for alerts, SLOs, and cross-service correlation.

Getting Started

Ultra Hub

Observability

Concepts

Configuration

Backend Examples

Jaeger

Grafana Tempo

Datadog

Honeycomb

What Gets Exported

Dual Storage

​Configuration

​Backend Examples

​Jaeger

​Grafana Tempo

​Datadog

​Honeycomb

​What Gets Exported

​Dual Storage

Configuration

Backend Examples

Jaeger

Grafana Tempo

Datadog

Honeycomb

What Gets Exported

Dual Storage