[Doc] How to specify where to send the spans data to an external location?

[hocokahu]

Why

I need to grab the span info and send to destination X. How do I do that?

[pvatokahu]

You can specify where to export the spans to by adding an environment variable 'MONOCLE_EXPORTER'.
In v0.2, options supported as 's3', 'blob', 'file', 'okahu'. Depending on the type, there may be additional input required (such as API keys). You can specify these as other environment variables.

With monocle, you can specify these as a configuration instead of having to write exporter specification as part of your code. This helps platform engineers control the configuration of the target without having to have the app developer change the code to change the destination.

Note: we will add documentation for this.

Support for other exporters such as memory is upcoming.