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OTel Ingest v2 — passthrough endpoint.
Accepts OTLP/HTTP JSON (primary) or protobuf (fallback). Promotes recognized Gen AI semantic conventions to typed columns. Stores ALL remaining attributes in metadata — nothing is dropped.
Authentication
AuthorizationBearer
Use your Respan API key for Respan API authentication. Enter only the Respan API key value; clients send Authorization: Bearer <RESPAN_API_KEY>. For /api/responses, provider credentials such as Perplexity, OpenAI, or Azure OpenAI go in Settings -> Providers or respan_params.credential_override in the request body, not in this authentication field.
Response
No response body