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# Export to Grafana Cloud

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Grafana Cloud provides visualization, alerting, and telemetry analytics. It accepts Cloudflare telemetry through the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP).

Export Cloudflare traces to Grafana Tempo and logs to Grafana Loki.

![Grafana Tempo trace view showing a distributed trace for a service with multiple spans including fetch requests, durable object subrequests, and queue operations, with timing information displayed on a timeline](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/image/onerror=redirect,width=1934,height=714,format=webp/_astro/grafana-traces.CuFntNVO.png)

This guide configures Grafana Cloud to receive Cloudflare traces and logs.

## Prerequisites

Before you begin, you need an active [Grafana Cloud account ↗︎](https://grafana.com/auth/sign-up/create-user). You also need Cloudflare logs or traces to export.

## 1. Get your OpenTelemetry credentials

1. Log in to the [Grafana Cloud portal ↗︎](https://grafana.com/).
2. From your organization home page, go to **Connections** > **Add new connection**.
3. Search for `OpenTelemetry`, then select **OpenTelemetry (OTLP)**.
4. Select **Quickstart**, then select **JavaScript**.
5. Select **Create a new token**.
6. Enter a token name, such as `cloudflare-otel`.
7. Select **Create token**, then select **Close**.
8. Copy the `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT` value from **Environment variables**.
9. Copy the `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS` value from the same block.

## 2. Configure Cloudflare Observability destinations

1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to **Observability** > **Destinations**. [Go to **OpenTelemetry** ↗](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/observability/destinations)
2. Select **Add destination**.
3. Enter a descriptive destination name, such as `grafana-traces`.
4. For **Destination type**, select *Traces* or *Logs*. Create a separate destination for each type you export.
5. Enter the Grafana OTLP endpoint for your telemetry type:
   - **Traces**: Append `/v1/traces` to the endpoint.
   - **Logs**: Append `/v1/logs` to the endpoint.
6. Add the Grafana authentication header:
   - **Header name**: `Authorization`
   - **Header value**: The Basic authentication value from Grafana
7. Select **Save**.

The endpoint resembles `https://otlp-gateway-prod-us-east-2.grafana.net/otlp`.

## 3. Enable export

Creating a destination does not start exporting telemetry. To export [Workers Logs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/observability/logs/workers-logs/) or [Workers Traces](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/observability/traces/), [configure OpenTelemetry export for your Worker](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/observability/opentelemetry-export/). To export [Cloudflare Traces](https://developers.cloudflare.com/observability/traces/), [configure export for your domain](https://developers.cloudflare.com/observability/traces/configuration/#export-traces).

Data may take several minutes to appear in Grafana Cloud.

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