Send metrics

Send metrics with an OpenTelemetry SDK or collector, then query them alongside logs, traces, and business data.

Configure the exporter

Configure authentication with credentials from the environment that owns your OpenTelemetry catalog. Set the metrics exporter endpoint to https://api.altertable.ai/v1/metrics and use OTLP/HTTP with protobuf or JSON encoding.

Use your language's OpenTelemetry metrics SDK or an existing collector to export gauge, sum, histogram, exponential histogram, or summary data. Set the service.name resource attribute so you can find the service in SQL.

The API reference defines headers, payloads, and response statuses.

Verify the data

Generate activity in the service, allow an export interval to pass, then run:

SELECT timestamp, service_name, metric_name, metric_type, value, count, sum
FROM opentelemetry.main.metrics
ORDER BY timestamp DESC
LIMIT 100;

Confirm that the service, metric names, and timestamps match the activity you generated. value applies to gauge and sum points; use count and sum for histogram and summary points.

For the underlying storage tables, see the data model.