Prerequisites

Before you begin instrumenting your application, ensure you have the following information from your CtrlB instance:

Required Configuration Parameters

The following parameters are required to establish connectivity between your application (via OTLP exporter) and your CtrlB instance:

Parameter	Description
Ingestion Host URL	https://<INGESTION_HOST> Replace <INGESTION_HOST> with your CtrlB ingestion host.
Authentication Format	Authorization: Basic <API_TOKEN> Replace <API_TOKEN> with your CtrlB API authentication token.
Stream Specification	Provide the target CtrlB stream or dataset name via the header: stream-name=<STREAM_NAME>
Service Name	Logical name of your service (appears in CtrlB dashboards and spans). Set via OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=<service_name>.