Send logs

Rootprint accepts logs two ways:

OTLP HTTP: OpenTelemetry logs over HTTP (protobuf). Use this with any OTEL SDK, the OTEL Collector, or a sidecar that speaks OTLP.
Rootprint HTTP endpoint: an authenticated endpoint that ingests NDJSON into your target index. Use this when you control the wire format and want to write to a custom-schema index.

Two axes decide where you land. The source page (web server, platform, language) defines how its logs are parsed into OpenTelemetry attributes; the agent page (OpenTelemetry Collector, Fluent Bit, Vector) shows how to run the collector — on bare metal or in Docker.

Pick a path

If you have…	Use
An app in Python, Node.js, Go, or Zig	The matching language page (OTLP SDK)
Access logs from Caddy or Nginx	The matching web server page (OTEL Collector or Vector)
Container logs on a Linux host	Docker (Vector or OTEL Collector)
Pods in a Kubernetes cluster	Kubernetes (OTEL Collector DaemonSet)
Logs already on disk on a Linux host	OpenTelemetry Collector, Fluent Bit, or Vector
Existing pipeline that emits your own schema	HTTP endpoint
An app in another language, or anything else that speaks OTLP	OTLP reference
Spans to send, not logs	Traces overview