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
Instance Host	<INSTANCE_HOST>
Authentication Format	Authorization: Basic <API_TOKEN> Replace <API_TOKEN> with your CtrlB API authentication token.
Stream Identifier	<STREAM_NAME> CtrlB stream that receives these traces. Sent in the stream-name header.
Service Name	Logical name of your service (appears in CtrlB dashboards and spans). Set via OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=<SERVICE_NAME>.