View OpenTelemetry Collectors in Splunk Enterprise
After configuring and connecting OTel Collectors to your Splunk Enterprise instance, you can view them in a table. You can monitor their status and check the details.
- Log in to Splunk Enterprise
- Select Settings and then, under the Distributed Environment section, select Agent management.
- On the home page of agent management, on the left menu, select the OTel Collectors view.
- On the Agent management - OTel Collectors page, you can see the list of OTel Collector. Information about OTel Collectors are grouped into the following table columns:
Parameters Description Agent ID The ID identifying the agent (service.instance.id) Service Name Agent name (service.name) Namespace Agent namespace (service.namespace) Version Agent application version (service.version) Host Name Agent host name (host.name) IP Address Agent IP address CPU Architecture The CPU architecture the host system is running on (host.arch) System Description Human-readable OS version information (os.description) Status The status of an agent. The possible values are OK and Offline. The status is calculated on the basis of heartbeat Check-in Shows how long ago the last heartbeat of agent was sent - To see the details, select the link in the Agent ID column. It displays a page with agent details, host detail, identifying attributes, and non-identifying attributes.
- Agent details show Capabilities that are all the functions supported by a given agent.
- Identifying attributes are attributes that identify the agent.
- Non-identifying attributes are attributes that don't necessarily identify the agent but they help describe where it runs.