# Error sending traces directly from Open Telemetry to an ElasticSearch container?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-traces-directly-from-open-telemetry-to-an-elasticsearch-container/357249>\
**Category:** Elastic Observability\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [April 11, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-traces-directly-from-open-telemetry-to-an-elasticsearch-container/357249 "2024-04-11T23:33:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edgar\_Duarte](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/edgar_duarte/32/126489_2.png) [@Edgar\_Duarte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edgar_Duarte)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-traces-directly-from-open-telemetry-to-an-elasticsearch-container/357249/1 "2024-04-11T23:33:58Z")

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Hello everyone,  
I am trying to send traces directly from Open Telemetry Collector to an Elasticsearch container (I do not want to use Elastic APM). My current problem is that the traces are reaching the Elasticsearch container, but generate the following error:

> {"@timestamp":"2024-04-11T23:08:02.254Z", "log.level": "WARN", "message":"http channel [Netty4HttpChannel{localAddress=/173.19.0.3:9200, remoteAddress=/173.19.0.1:34642}] missing tracking channel", "ecs.version": "1.2.0","service.name":"ES\_ECS","event.dataset":"elasticsearch.server","process.thread.name":"elasticsearch[node-single][transport\_worker][T#4]","log.logger":"org.elasticsearch.http.AbstractHttpServerTransport","elasticsearch.cluster.uuid":"uid","elasticsearch.node.id":"id","elasticsearch.node.name":"node-single","elasticsearch.cluster.name":"docker-ELK"}

It appears that my OpenTelemetry Collector or Elasticsearch config file is missing a configuration, but I cannot pinpoint the error.  
Here is my OTEL Collector yaml:

```auto
receivers:
  otlp:
    protocols:
      grpc:
      http:

exporters:
  logging:
    loglevel: debug

  elasticsearch/trace:
    endpoints: [http://elasticsearch:9200]
    index: "otel"
    user: elastic
    password: 
    api_key: 
    tls:
      insecure_skip_verify: true

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      receivers: [otlp]
      exporters: [elasticsearch/trace]

```

And here is my Elasticsearch yaml:

```auto

node.name: node-single

path.data: /usr/share/elasticsearch/data

path.repo: ["/es-data/snapshots/"]

path.logs: /var/log

cluster.name: docker-ELK
network.host: 0.0.0.0

thread_pool.search.queue_size: 100000

xpack.security.enabled=false

#xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled: true
xpack.monitoring.collection.interval: 30s # default 10s
xpack.monitoring.history.duration: 3d #In requirements this should be 15d (?)
xpack.monitoring.exporters.my_local:
  type: local
  use_ingest: false

xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.http.ssl.key: certs/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.key
xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate: certs/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.crt
xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities: certs/ca/ca.crt
xpack.security.http.ssl.verification_mode: certificate

xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.key: certs/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.key
xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate: certs/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.crt
xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities: certs/ca/ca.crt
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode: certificate

xpack.license.self_generated.type: basic

```

In my application, I am sending traces via an SDK in the following manner:

```auto
var tracerProvider = Sdk.CreateTracerProviderBuilder()
          .AddSource(MyActivitySource.Name)
          .AddAspNetCoreInstrumentation()
          .AddOtlpExporter(exporterOptions =>
            {
              exporterOptions.Endpoint = new Uri("http://localhost:9200");
              exporterOptions.Protocol = OtlpExportProtocol.Grpc;
            })
            .Build();

```

I would really appreciate if someone could indicate what could possibly be wrong. I am also receiving data from Metric and File Beats, could this be interfering in any way?