In this video, I’ll provide an overview of the OpenTelemetry Collector’s configuration file (config.yaml) with examples from the Splunk distribution. I will briefly explain the components of the Splunk OTel Collector, and walk you through a sample generic configuration of the OTel Collector. We’ll then use the Splunk Observability Cloud interface to construct the commands needed to install the Splunk OTel Collector on a specific host. This installation will copy a default Splunk OTel Collector configuration onto the host, and we’ll review the Splunk specific components of this configuration. Finally, I’ll show you how to visualize the pipelines of your configuration using OTelBin. You can visualize your own OTel Collector configurations at https://www.otelbin.io/.

TOC:

00:00 Introduction

00:10 OpenTelemetry Collector Components

01:38 Sample Collector Configuration Walkthrough

06:38 Splunk OTel Collector Install Wizard in Splunk O11y Cloud

09:25 Splunk OTel Collector Default Configuration Walkthrough

13:20 Review OTel Configs in OTelBin

16:45 Conclusion