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  1. Welcome to Telemetry👋
  2. Quick start guide
  3. Ingesting data
    1. Vector (Recommended)
    2. OpenTelemetry
    3. Ingesting via HTTP API
    4. Ingesting metrics
    5. Ingesting logs
      1. Docker & Kubernetes
      2. Operating systems
      3. Log forwarders
      4. Programming languages
      5. Cloud platforms
        1. AWS
        2. Cloudflare
        3. Google
        4. Digital Ocean
        5. Heroku
        6. Vercel
        7. Render
        8. Fly.io
      6. Web servers & Load balancers
      7. Databases & queues
      8. Storage
    6. Migrating to Better Stack
  4. Telemetry API
    1. Getting an API token
    2. Sources API
    3. Metrics API
    4. Query API
  5. Using the product
    1. Transforming ingested data
    2. Querying data
    3. Alerts

Render integration

Start logging in 2 minutes

  1. Go to Render dashboard -> Observability → Log Streams → Add Log Stream.
  2. Paste the values below into the fields.
  3. Click on Save Changes and you're done. 🎉
Log Stream configuration
Log Endpoint: $INGESTING_HOST_VEC:6514
Token:        $SOURCE_TOKEN

You should see your logs in Better Stack → Live tail.

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Send Render metrics to Better Stack

Create OpenTelemetry source

  1. Go to Sources -> Connect source.

  2. Name the source and select OpenTelemetry.

  3. Click "Connect source".

  4. Copy the Source token and Ingesting host from the page.

Set up metrics in Render

  1. Go to Render dashboard -> Observability.

  2. Under Metrics Stream, click Add Destination.

  3. Select Better Stack.

  4. Paste the Better Stack Source token and Ingesting host.

You should see your metrics in the OpenTelemetry dashboard.

Need help?

Please let us know at hello@betterstack.com.
We're happy to help! 🙏

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