Advanced configuration for Linux

Optional configurations for the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Linux.

The Collector comes with a default configuration, as explained in Collector for Linux default configuration. Read on to modify advanced settings.

Change the default configuration file

For extended configuration options, see full_config_linux.yaml . This configuration requires using OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib project or a similar distribution.

After you modify the configuration, restart the Collector service. For example:

sudo systemctl restart splunk-otel-collector

You can view the splunk-otel-collector service logs and errors in the systemd journal using the following command:

sudo journalctl -u splunk-otel-collector