Install the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kafka manually

Run the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kafka from a downloaded package and a configuration file. For a command-by-command walkthrough that uses OCI Streaming as the source, see Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kafka for OCI Streaming.

Download the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector package

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kafka runs in the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector package. Download the package for your platform from the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector releases. Release numbers start with v.

For example, on Linux with an AMD64 architecture, run the following wget command:

COMMANDLINE 
wget https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/releases/download/v0.158.0/otelcol_linux_amd64

Run the package with a configuration file

Run the package with a completed Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kafka configuration template. For a minimal starting point, see Create a minimal configuration template.

COMMANDLINE 
./<otel_package> --config <config_file>
Note:

Make sure that the file has executable permissions before you run the command. On Linux, use the following command to add executable permissions:

COMMANDLINE 
chmod a+x <otel_package>

For example, on Linux with an AMD64 architecture, run:

COMMANDLINE 
chmod a+x otelcol_linux_amd64
./otelcol_linux_amd64 --config config.yaml

For information about the pipeline, see Understand the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kafka design.