envoyproxy/gateway

Support sending OpenTelemetry traces over OTLP/HTTP

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#8,421 opened on Mar 6, 2026

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Current Envoy gateway only has HTTP/gRPC support for traces.

Current tracing docs also does not mention configuring exporting protocol.

I would like to see support for OTLP/HTTP traces added to the gateway.

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