Elastic Observability · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enhancements — Observability Intake opentelemetry intake API (opentelemetry-intake)

5 actions 5 updates servers extends openapi/elastic-observability-opentelemetry-intake-api-openapi.yml
Derived by API Evangelist Built from the contracts Elastic Observability publishes. Elastic Observability did not publish this file.
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responsesserversx-domain-standard

Targets 5

$
$.paths['/v1/traces'].post
$.paths['/v1/metrics'].post
$.paths['/v1/logs'].post
$.info

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overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements — Observability Intake opentelemetry intake API (opentelemetry-intake)
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/elastic-observability-opentelemetry-intake-api-openapi.yml
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-29'
  method: generated
  source: Derived from Elastic's own documentation; never mutates openapi/_original/elastic-observability-observability-intake-openapi.yml.
actions:
- target: $
  description: 'Replace the placeholder relative server with the real deployment-scoped hosts Elastic
    documents. The published contract ships servers: [{url: ''/''}], which names no host at all; Elastic
    documents the Elastic Cloud APM Server address as https://<hash>.apm.<region>.cloud.es.io:443 and
    the self-managed default as http://localhost:8200.'
  update:
    servers:
    - url: https://{deployment}.apm.{region}.cloud.es.io:443
      description: Elastic Cloud Hosted APM Server — deployment-scoped host, from the Elastic Cloud console
      variables:
        deployment:
          default: deployment
          description: Deployment hash from the Elastic Cloud console
        region:
          default: us-east-1
          description: Elastic Cloud region
    - url: http://{host}:{port}
      description: Self-managed / Elastic Cloud Enterprise APM Server
      variables:
        host:
          default: localhost
        port:
          default: '8200'
- target: $.paths['/v1/traces'].post
  description: 'Record the 429 Elastic documents for managed OTLP ingest, which the published contract
    omits (it declares 200 only). Source: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/opentelemetry/motlp/rate-limiting'
  update:
    responses:
      '429':
        description: 'Too Many Requests — request exceeded available capacity. OTLP/gRPC surfaces this
          as ''rpc error: code = ResourceExhausted desc = request exceeded available capacity''. No Retry-After
          or X-RateLimit-* header is documented.'
- target: $.paths['/v1/metrics'].post
  description: Record the documented 429 on managed OTLP metric ingest.
  update:
    responses:
      '429':
        description: Too Many Requests — request exceeded available capacity.
- target: $.paths['/v1/logs'].post
  description: Record the documented 429 on managed OTLP log ingest.
  update:
    responses:
      '429':
        description: Too Many Requests — request exceeded available capacity.
- target: $.info
  description: Flag the domain standard this contract declares, so a machine reading the spec can see
    it without parsing path names.
  update:
    x-domain-standard:
      id: otlp
      name: OpenTelemetry Protocol
      evidence: OTLP/HTTP /v1/* paths and OTLP/gRPC *Service/Export paths with application/x-protobuf
        and application/json bodies
      docs: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/opentelemetry

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