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slug: /send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source
title: Configure HTTP Source for Logs, Metrics, Traces, OTLP
description: Configure HTTP Sources on Sumo Logic hosted collectors to receive logs, metrics, traces, and OTLP data uploaded via a unique, securely encoded URL.
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/
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An HTTP Source is an endpoint for receiving logs, metrics, traces, and OTLP data uploaded to a unique URL generated for the Source. The URL securely encodes the Collector and Source information. You can add as many HTTP Sources as you'd like to a single Hosted Collector.

In this section, we'll introduce the following concepts:

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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/logs-metrics')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/send-data/http-logs-metrics.png')} alt="HTTP Logs Metrics icon" width="50"/><h4>HTTP Logs and Metrics</h4></a>
  <p>An HTTP Logs and Metrics Source is an endpoint for receiving log and metric data uploaded to a unique URL generated for the Source.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/otlp')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/send-data/otel-color.svg')} alt="OpenTelemetry color icon" width="45"/><h4>OTLP</h4></a>
  <p>Use an HTTP OTLP Source to collect OTLP formatted Logs, Metrics, and Traces data.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/logs-metrics/upload-logs')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/logs.png')} alt="Logs icon" width="40"/><h4>Upload Logs to HTTP Source</h4></a>
  <p>This guide provides instructions on uploading logs to an HTTP Source.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/logs-metrics/upload-metrics')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/metrics.png')} alt="Metrics icon" width="40"/><h4>Upload Metrics to HTTP Source</h4></a>
  <p>This guide provides instructions on uploading metrics to an HTTP Source.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/generate-new-url')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/logs.png')} alt="Logs icon" width="40"/><h4>Generate HTTP Source URL</h4></a>
  <p>You can generate a new URL for an HTTP Source at any time. Generating a new URL completely invalidates the old URL.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/traces')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/send-data/http-traces.png')} alt="HTTP Traces icon" width="40"/><h4>HTTP Traces</h4></a>
  <p>An HTTP Traces Source is an endpoint for receiving trace data.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/apm/real-user-monitoring/configure-data-collection')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/send-data/http-rum.png')} alt="HTTP Rum icon" width="40"/><h4>RUM HTTP Traces Source</h4></a>
  <p>Learn how to configure a RUM HTTP Traces Source.</p>
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  <a href={useBaseUrl('docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/troubleshooting')}><img src={useBaseUrl('img/icons/operations/troubleshoot.png')} alt="Troubleshoot icon" width="40"/><h4>HTTP Source Troubleshooting</h4></a>
  <p>Check the HTTP status codes.</p>
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