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OpenTelemetry Collector

Visualize OpenTelemetry (OTEL) collector metrics (tested with OTEL contrib v0.101.0)

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Visualisation of OpenTelemetry collector metrics from Prometheus.

Part of opentelemetry-collector-monitoring repo.

Collector configuration, where collector collects own metrics and posts them to Prometheus:

extensions:
  sigv4auth/aws:

receivers:
  prometheus:
    config:
      scrape_configs:
      - job_name: otel-collector-metrics
        scrape_interval: 10s
        static_configs:
        - targets: ['localhost:8888']

exporters:
  # AWS Managed Prometheus example
  prometheusremotewrite/aws:
    endpoint: https://aps-workspaces.<region>.amazonaws.com/workspaces/<workspace-id>/api/v1/remote_write
    auth:
      authenticator: sigv4auth/aws
  # Grafana Cloud example
  prometheusremotewrite/grafanacloud:
    # check your Grafana Cloud admin console for correct hostname
    endpoint: https://prometheus-prod-11-prod-us-central-0.grafana.net/api/prom  
    headers:
      # hardcoded base64 value in auth header or use basicauth extension
      "Authorization": "Basic <base64(username:password)>"
  # Prometheus server example
  prometheusremotewrite/my-prometheus:
    # my-prometheus server must have '--enable-feature=remote-write-receiver'
    endpoint: https://my-prometheus/api/v1/write 

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [prometheus]
      processors: []
      # use configured prometheusremotewrite exporter
      exporters: [prometheusremotewrite]
  telemetry:
    metrics:
      address: 0.0.0.0:8888
      level: detailed

See: collector monitoring doc and collector troubleshooting - metrics.

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