Add HTTP OTLP Trace Exporter Support for Auto Instrumentation

[hoperawr]

Describe the Problem

Currently, the SDK's telemetry options may not fully support exporting OTLP traces over HTTP. MLflow (and several other observability backends) has standardised on receiving OpenTelemetry traces via OTLP/HTTP rather than gRPC. Without this, users are unable to pipe traces directly from their SAP Cloud SDK instrumented agents into MLflow for experiment tracking and monitoring.

Propose a Solution

I propose adding a new exporter configuration that utilizes the opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http package. This will be configurable using the Environment Variable OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL which is part of the OpenTelemetry Exporter Documentation.

Describe Alternatives

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Affected Development Phase

Development

Impact

Inconvenience

Timeline

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