From 93ea0b5edff5803844ce832c32653feb21b5d50d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerhard Lazu <gerhard@changelog.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:03:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Enable gzip compression when sending event traces

Typically results in ~80% less bandwidth used.

Signed-off-by: Gerhard Lazu <gerhard@changelog.com>
---
 config/config.exs | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/config/config.exs b/config/config.exs
index 33ab7ffa53..1148d3a51f 100644
--- a/config/config.exs
+++ b/config/config.exs
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ if System.get_env("HONEYCOMB_API_KEY") do
   config :opentelemetry, traces_exporter: :otlp
   config :opentelemetry_exporter,
     otlp_protocol: :http_protobuf,
+    otlp_compression: :gzip,
     otlp_endpoint: "https://api.honeycomb.io:443",
     otlp_headers: [
       {"x-honeycomb-team", SecretOrEnv.get("HONEYCOMB_API_KEY")},