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not [OTLP/gRPC](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otlp/#otlpgrpc).
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Don't send metrics from applications directly to the {{es}} OTLP endpoint, especially if there are many individual applications that periodically send a small amount of metrics. Instead, send data to an OpenTelemetry Collector first. This helps with handling many connections, and with creating bigger batches to improve ingestion performance.
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## How to send data to the OTLP endpoint
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To send data from an OpenTelemetry Collector to the {{es}} OTLP endpoint,
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