Active Directory Domain Services receiver

The Active Directory Domain Services receiver scrapes metrics relating to an Active Directory domain controller using the Windows Performance Counters.

Note: Out-of-the-box dashboards and navigators aren't supported for the Active Directory Domain Services receiver.

Deploy the collector

See Install the Collector for Windows with the installer script.

Configure the receiver

Edit your OpenTelemetry Collector configuration file as follows.

Add active_directory_ds to the receivers section of your configuration file.
The following settings are optional:
- collection_interval. 10s by default. Sets the interval this receiver collects metrics on.
  - This value must be a string readable by Golang's time.ParseDuration. Learn more at Go's official documentation ParseDuration function .
  - Valid time units are ns, us (or µs), ms, s, m, h
- initial_delay. 1s by default. Determines how long this receiver waits before collecting metrics for the first time.
Example:
```
receivers:
      active_directory_ds:
        collection_interval: 10s
```
Configure other settings.
Include the receiver in the metrics pipeline of the service section of your configuration file:
```
service:
      pipelines:
        metrics:
          receivers: [active_directory_ds]
```

Restart the collector

To apply your configuration changes, restart the collector. The command to restart the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector varies depending on what platform you deployed it on and what tool you used to deploy it, but here are general examples of the restart command:

Linux with installer script:

sudo systemctl restart splunk-otel-collector

Windows with installer script:

stop-service splunk-otel-collector
start-service splunk-otel-collector

Kubernetes with Helm:

sudo systemctl restart splunk-otel-collector

Settings

The following table shows the configuration options for the Active Directory Domain Services receiver:

included

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/splunk/collector-config-tools/main/cfg-metadata/receiver/active_directory_ds.yaml

Troubleshooting

See Troubleshoot the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector.