Questions tagged [open-telemetry-collector]
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Push metrics using Kafka Exporter with OpenTelemetry
I am trying to collect some metrics and export it to Kafka using OpenTelemetry. For a simple POC, I have a local file in the OpenMetrics format and I wish to parse it and push the metrics on Kafka.
I understand I should use kafkaexporter but I am…

mohitmayank
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Java Auto Instrumentation creating problems in the namespace
I am trying to install OpenTelemetry in our Staging Environment, the collector being in DaemonSet Mode.
My goal is to create a Java Instrumentation customer resource, which defines the configuration for OpenTelemetry SDK and instrumentation.
The…

Anubhav Kumar
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Why does my Datadog APM Query show data in the APM section, but not for the dashboards section?
I am running a Datadog APM query, and I am able to see my traces in the APM section. However, when I try the same query parameters (env and service) in the query definition of the dashboards section, I am getting no data.
I have a java application…

Juan Bustamante
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Preprocess (replace character) log body for syslog receiver
I use opentelemetry-collector (contrib 0.82.0) and syslogreceiver. I'm getting error parsed value was not rfc3164 or rfc5424 compliant for some logs:
{
"level": "error",
"ts": 1693341000.02045,
"caller": "helper/transformer.go:99",
"msg":…

Jan Garaj
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set Timestamp field on log data model in opentelemetry collector using transform processor
I've configured my OpenTelemetry Collector (otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.82.0) to receive events via the FluentForward receiver. The incoming events have a structure like this:
{
"message": "hello world",
"timestamp":…

Eitan
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Dependencies do not show with OpenTelemetry automatic instrumentation for PHP
I have a very simple stack of PHP + Otel auto instrumetation + Elastic APM + Prometheus.
My stack gets tracing and metrics information from my php app.
My tracings are forwarded to the elastic cloud, where I use APM. My metrics go to Prometheus.
I…

Pablo Marques
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Send traces directly from python application to Grafana Cloud's tempo instance without Grafana agent
Here is python script that sends test trace directly to tempo instance :
import base64
from typing import Tuple
from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import \
OTLPSpanExporter
from…

Utsav Chokshi
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Can we send json data as part of custom metrics using open telemetry sdk to Otel collector?
Example json
{
"StudentName": "John",
"StudentID": "1234",
"TimeStamp": "20200714",
}
I am researching on how I can proceed with adding custom metrics for json data using open telemetry sdk and then send it to Otel collector.Any suggestions here is…

Sowmya Benakappa
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OpenTelemetry Collector not exporting data to Azure Data Explorer
I'm currently facing issues with sending telemetry data from a C++ desktop application to Azure, specifically Azure Data Explorer.
In my project, telemetry is being sent via a gRPC exporter to a collector on the same machine. This collector…

shivi
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Issue when using kafka in opentelemetry collector exporters running in openshift
I'm having kafka cluster deployed in openshift in different namespace also opentelemetry is delpoyed in another namespace.
This is my yaml file for opentelemetry
apiVersion: opentelemetry.io/v1alpha1
kind: OpenTelemetryCollector
metadata:
name:…

Mugi Coder
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Scrape application and K8s cluster level metrics using OpenTelemetry collector
I am researching on how to scrape application level metrics as well as the K8s host cluster metrics and forward it to a gateway collector, all using OpenTelemetry. I am referring to the OTel's Github page -…

skp15
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prometheus relabel instance
I currently have this metric:
os_processor_information_processor_time_percent{instance="3,9"} 0.026940740009384623
I would like to change the labeling to be:
os_processor_information_processor_time_percent{instance="3,9",nodegroup="3",core="9"}
Is…

rismoney
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OpenTelemetry Swift - how to send **logs** to an OpenTelemetry Collector?
I'm making an iPhone app and want to use an OpenTelemetry Collector on my server to collect Metrics, Traces and Logs. I've implemented Metrics and Traces using this package, and it works just fine!
The GitHub page stays that "Logs are considered…

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Opentelemetry with Prometheus - Metric Data points / scrapes missing
Our Set-up in Kubernetes is as follows:
Opentelemetry agent (both java and python used and metrics from both have the same issue)
Opentelemetry-collector - version 0.77.0 (we previously were on 0.72.0 and that had the same problem)
It's using the…

Martin W
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Custom build of opentelemetry-collector is missing operator used by receiver
I use OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (ocb) with this config for receivers:
receivers:
- gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/tcplogreceiver v0.84.0
I use syslog_parser operator in the collector config for…

Jan Garaj
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