In this video, I’ll show you how to install the Splunk Distribution of the OTel Collector using a Helm Chart. We’ll walk through constructing the necessary Helm commands using the K8s Integration Wizard in Splunk Observability Cloud, and then deploy the collector to a cluster. We’ll then verify that the cluster and its services are being monitored in Observability Cloud’s Kubernetes Navigators, and then briefly walk through the values.yaml file of the Helm chart as well as the Otel Collector’s configuration.

00:00 Introduction

00:11 Why deploy OTel Collector in K8s with Helm?

01:28 Requirements and Install Documentation

03:28 Kubernetes Integration Wizard

06:42 Deploy OTel Collector to my K8s cluster

09:25 Monitor the K8s Cluster from the K8s Navigator

11:19 Review the values.yaml file

12:22 OTel Collector configuration in K8s

13:55 Helm install argument options

14:57 K8s Integration Overview in O11y Cloud

15:33 Conclusion