opentelemetry-go/exporters/otlp/README.md

# OpenTelemetry Collector Go Exporter

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This exporter converts OpenTelemetry [SpanData](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/blob/6769330394f78192df01cb59299e9e0f2e5e977b/sdk/export/trace/trace.go#L49) 
to OpenTelemetry Protocol [Span](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/blob/c20698d5bb483cf05de1a7c0e134b7c57e359674/opentelemetry/proto/trace/v1/trace.proto#L46)
and exports them to OpenTelemetry Collector.


## Installation

```bash
$ go get -u go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp
```
opentelemetry collector trace exporter (#497) * opentelemetry collector exporter - missing load test - missing resources * fix review comments. * add test for each SpanKind and Attribute Type. * rename otelcol to otlp * move exporter/trace/otlp to exporters/otlp * more review comments. * add alignment test. * pass context to uploadSpans 2020-03-07 08:01:02 +02:00			`# OpenTelemetry Collector Go Exporter`

update godoc.org links to pkg.go.dev (#602) Banner at the top of godoc.org pages are already asking users to redirect to pkg.go.dev as mentioned in blog post https://blog.golang.org/pkg.go.dev-2020 Signed-off-by: Andrew Hsu <xuzuan@gmail.com> 2020-03-30 21:40:38 +02:00			`[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/go.opentelemetry.io/otel?status.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp)`
opentelemetry collector trace exporter (#497) * opentelemetry collector exporter - missing load test - missing resources * fix review comments. * add test for each SpanKind and Attribute Type. * rename otelcol to otlp * move exporter/trace/otlp to exporters/otlp * more review comments. * add alignment test. * pass context to uploadSpans 2020-03-07 08:01:02 +02:00

			`This exporter converts OpenTelemetry [SpanData](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/blob/6769330394f78192df01cb59299e9e0f2e5e977b/sdk/export/trace/trace.go#L49)`
			`to OpenTelemetry Protocol [Span](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/blob/c20698d5bb483cf05de1a7c0e134b7c57e359674/opentelemetry/proto/trace/v1/trace.proto#L46)`
			`and exports them to OpenTelemetry Collector.`


			`## Installation`

			```bash
			`$ go get -u go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp`
			```