From b47b5fed7a90b6f931054c08df952a2c39670ed1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Freidin Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 08:43:20 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] clarify key-value format #4296 --- specification/protocol/exporter.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/specification/protocol/exporter.md b/specification/protocol/exporter.md index 22cf934c613..48d68e53cec 100644 --- a/specification/protocol/exporter.md +++ b/specification/protocol/exporter.md @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ release). ### Specifying headers via environment variables -The `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS`, `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_HEADERS`, `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_HEADERS`, `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_HEADERS` environment variables will contain a list of key value pairs, and these are expected to be represented in a format matching to the [W3C Baggage](https://www.w3.org/TR/baggage/#header-content), except that additional semi-colon delimited metadata is not supported, i.e.: key1=value1,key2=value2. All attribute values MUST be considered strings. +The `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS`, `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_HEADERS`, `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_HEADERS`, `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_HEADERS` environment variables will contain a list of key value pairs, and these are expected to be represented in a format conforming to [W3C Baggage](https://www.w3.org/TR/baggage/#header-content) i.e., `key1=value1,key2=value2`. Semi-colon delimited metadata is not supported. All attribute values MUST be considered strings. ## Retry