Authentication

OpenTelemetry ingestion uses the same HTTP Basic Auth credentials as the Lakehouse API. Each environment has its own credentials boundary.

Get credentials

1. Open the target environment in Altertable.
2. Open Credentials.
3. Copy the lakehouse username and password.

Build the Basic Auth token

Base64-encode your credentials in the format lakehouse_username:lakehouse_password:

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echo -n "your_lakehouse_username:your_lakehouse_password" | base64

Then send the encoded value in the Authorization header:

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Authorization: Basic <ALTERTABLE_BASIC_AUTH_TOKEN>

Endpoint host

Send OTLP/HTTP protobuf data to the standard paths on api.altertable.ai:

Learn more

• Send logs: configure log export.
• Send traces: configure trace export.
• OpenTelemetry API: endpoint details for OTLP traces and logs.