Deploy a supported OpenTelemetry Collector

If you've already deployed an OpenTelemetry Collector in your application environment, confirm that it's a supported collector and version. If you haven't already deployed an OpenTelemetry Collector, this topic provides condensed deployment instructions tailored to the Secure Application use case.

Supported OpenTelemetry collectors

Minimum Collector versions depend on the deployment method:

• Kubernetes Helm deployments: Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector 1.40.0 or higher

• Non-Kubernetes, non-Helm deployments: Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector 0.119.0 or higher, or Community (upstream) OpenTelemetry Collector 0.119.0 or higher

Recommended Kubernetes deployment option

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector version 1.40.0 or higher on Kubernetes with Helm chart version splunk-otel-collector-0.137.0 or higher. This Helm chart provides the collector configuration required to receive Secure Application data.

1. Add the Helm repository:

   SHELLCopy

   helm repo add splunk-otel-collector-chart https://signalfx.github.io/splunk-otel-collector-chart

   helm repo add splunk-otel-collector-chart https://signalfx.github.io/splunk-otel-collector-chart

2. Ensure the repository is up to date:

   SHELLCopy

   helm repo update

   helm repo update

3. Install the collector with splunkObservability.secureAppEnabled set to true. This prepares the collector for Secure Application data.

   SHELLCopy

   helm install my-splunk-otel-collector --set="splunkObservability.secureAppEnabled=true,splunkObservability.realm=<your-splunk-realm>,splunkObservability.accessToken=<your-access-token>,clusterName=<your-cluster-name>" splunk-otel-collector-chart/splunk-otel-collector

   helm install my-splunk-otel-collector --set="splunkObservability.secureAppEnabled=true,splunkObservability.realm=<your-splunk-realm>,splunkObservability.accessToken=<your-access-token>,clusterName=<your-cluster-name>" splunk-otel-collector-chart/splunk-otel-collector

4. Proceed to Do language-specific steps to configure application instrumentation.

Alternate deployment options

See Alternate deployment options.