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otelcol.exporter.otlphttp is what the Grafana databases and Grafana Cloud support. We should steer users towards that component so that they have a smoother onboarding experience.

The reason why otelcol.exporter.otlp has been used so far is that historically Tempo only supported gRPC, and it was also the first Grafana DB to support OTel. Today Tempo supports HTTP, and Mimir and Loki only support HTTP OTLP.

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`otelcol.exporter.otlphttp` is what the Grafana databases and Grafana
Cloud support. We should steer users towards that component so that they
have a smoother onboarding experience.

The reason why `otelcol.exporter.otlp` has been used so far is that
historically Tempo only supported gRPC, and it was also the first
Grafana DB to support OTel. Today Tempo supports HTTP, and Mimir and
Loki only support HTTP OTLP.

Related to #1310

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Co-authored-by: Clayton Cornell <131809008+clayton-cornell@users.noreply.github.com>
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## Backport of #5565

This PR backports #5565 to release/v1.13.

### Original PR Author
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### Description
`otelcol.exporter.otlphttp` is what the Grafana databases and Grafana
Cloud support. We should steer users towards that component so that they
have a smoother onboarding experience.

The reason why `otelcol.exporter.otlp` has been used so far is that
historically Tempo only supported gRPC, and it was also the first
Grafana DB to support OTel. Today Tempo supports HTTP, and Mimir and
Loki only support HTTP OTLP.

Related to #1310

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*This backport was created automatically.*

Co-authored-by: Paulin Todev <paulin.todev@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Clayton Cornell <131809008+clayton-cornell@users.noreply.github.com>
jharvey10 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 26, 2026
`otelcol.exporter.otlphttp` is what the Grafana databases and Grafana
Cloud support. We should steer users towards that component so that they
have a smoother onboarding experience.

The reason why `otelcol.exporter.otlp` has been used so far is that
historically Tempo only supported gRPC, and it was also the first
Grafana DB to support OTel. Today Tempo supports HTTP, and Mimir and
Loki only support HTTP OTLP.

Related to #1310

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Co-authored-by: Clayton Cornell <131809008+clayton-cornell@users.noreply.github.com>
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