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Generic forwarding
Generic forwarding allows asynchronous replication of ingested traces. The distributor writes received spans to both the ingester and defined endpoints, if enabled. This feature works in a “best-effort” manner, meaning that no retries happen if an error occurs during replication.
Warning
Generic forwarding does not work retroactively. Once enabled, the distributor only replicates freshly ingested spans.
Configure generic forwarding
Enabling generic forwarding requires the configuration of the distributor
and overrides
.
First, define a list of forwarders in the
distributor
section. Each forwarder must specify a uniquename
, supportedbackend
, and backend-specific configuration.Second, reference these forwarders in the
overrides
section. This allows for fine-grained control over forwarding and makes it possible to enable this feature globally or on a per-tenant basis.
For a detailed view of all the config options for the generic forwarding feature, please refer to distributor and overrides configuration pages.