OpenTelemetry Export to Elastic Search without Elastic APM

After trying this for some time, I've finally made it to work with the latest version of opentelemetry-collector-contrib (0.60.0 at the time of this writting). First I've created a multi-node cluster with Docker Compose using the steps here https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.4/docker.html#docker-compose-file . I also had to follow the instructions to set the vm.max_map_count to at least 262144. Then, using the same net, I started an opentelemetry-collector-contrib docker image using a command like: docker run --net certs_default --name opentelemetry-collector -v C:\docker\elastic\otel-collector-config.mount the host path yaml at container path /etc/otelcol-contrib/config.yaml -p 4317:4317 -p 4318:4318 otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.60.0 The configuration file is very simple: receivers: otlp: protocols: grpc: http: exporters: logging: loglevel: debug elasticsearch/trace: endpoints: [https://es01:9200] user: elastic password - api_key - tls: insecure_skip_verify: true service: pipelines: traces: receivers: [otlp] exporters: [elasticsearch/trace] Finally, I've just configured my application to use the OtlpExporter: .AddOtlpExporter(configure => { configure.Protocol = OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OtlpExportProtocol.Grpc; }) Doing these steps, I can see my traces in Kibana. Now it would be nice to have some template to display a single trace with all the spans.

Context: I'd like to export trace/metrics data to Elastic Search using OpenTelemetry, but I'd prefer to avoid Elastic APM. Is it possible? The opentelemetry contrib repo apparently suggests it is possible, however, I did not find anything on elastic.co documentation. By the way, openapm.io implies see here , OpenTelemetry can export to elastic beats (which is extremely desirable), but again, I did not find anything in Elastic.co docs.