OpenTelemetry Observability

Compliance Scanner exports traces and logs via OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) for integration with observability platforms like SigNoz, Grafana (Tempo + Loki), Jaeger, and others.

Enabling

Set the OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT environment variable to enable OTLP export:

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4317

When this variable is not set, telemetry export is disabled and only console logging is active.

What Is Exported

Traces

Distributed traces for:

• HTTP request handling (via tower-http TraceLayer)
• Database operations
• Scan pipeline phases
• External API calls (LiteLLM, Keycloak, Git providers)

Logs

All tracing::info!, tracing::warn!, tracing::error! log events are exported as OTel log records, including structured fields.

Configuration

Variable	Description	Default
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT	Collector gRPC endpoint	(disabled)
OTEL_SERVICE_NAME	Service name in traces	compliance-agent or compliance-dashboard
RUST_LOG	Log level filter	info

Docker Compose Setup

The included docker-compose.yml provides an OTel Collector service:

otel-collector:
  image: otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:latest
  ports:
    - "4317:4317"   # gRPC
    - "4318:4318"   # HTTP
  volumes:
    - ./otel-collector-config.yaml:/etc/otelcol-contrib/config.yaml

The agent and dashboard are pre-configured to send telemetry to the collector:

agent:
  environment:
    OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://otel-collector:4317
    OTEL_SERVICE_NAME: compliance-agent

dashboard:
  environment:
    OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://otel-collector:4317
    OTEL_SERVICE_NAME: compliance-dashboard

Collector Configuration

Edit otel-collector-config.yaml to configure your backend. The default exports to debug (stdout) only.

SigNoz

exporters:
  otlp/signoz:
    endpoint: "signoz-otel-collector:4317"
    tls:
      insecure: true

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [otlp/signoz]
    logs:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [otlp/signoz]

Grafana Tempo (Traces) + Loki (Logs)

exporters:
  otlp/tempo:
    endpoint: "tempo:4317"
    tls:
      insecure: true
  loki:
    endpoint: "http://loki:3100/loki/api/v1/push"

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [otlp/tempo]
    logs:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [loki]

Jaeger

exporters:
  otlp/jaeger:
    endpoint: "jaeger:4317"
    tls:
      insecure: true

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      processors: [batch]
      exporters: [otlp/jaeger]

Verifying

After starting with telemetry enabled, look for this log on startup:

OpenTelemetry OTLP export enabled endpoint=http://otel-collector:4317 service=compliance-agent

If the endpoint is unreachable, the application still starts normally — telemetry export fails silently without affecting functionality.