Collector for Linux default configuration

Configure the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector. There are a variety of default configuration files available, as well additional components that can be configured.

The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector has the following components and services:

  • Receivers: Determine how you’ll get data into the Collector.

  • Processors: Configure which operations you’ll perform on data before it’s exported. For example, filtering.

  • Exporters: Set up where to send data to. It can be one or more backends or destinations.

  • Extensions: Extend the capabilities of the Collector.

  • Connectors: Connect two pipelines, consuming data as an exporter at the end of one pipeline and emitting data as a receiver at the start of another pipeline.

  • Services. It consists of two elements:

    • List of the extensions you’ve configured.

    • Pipelines: Path data will follow from reception, then through processing or modification, and finally exiting through exporters.

For more information, see Collector components.

The Collector configuration is stored in a YAML file and specifies the behavior of the different components and services. See an overview of the elements and pipelines in the default configuration in the following sections.

See Tutorial: Configure the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector on a Linux host to learn how to configure the Collector.

Default configuration

This is the default configuration file for the Linux (Debian/RPM) Installer collector packages:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/main/cmd/otelcol/config/collector/agent_config.yaml

Default pipelines

By default, ingested data follows these pipelines.

The following diagram shows the default logs pipeline:

Learn more about these receivers:

Learn more about these processors:

Learn more about these exporters:

Default pipelines for metrics

The following diagram shows the default metrics pipeline:

Learn more about these receivers:

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Default pipelines for traces

The following diagram shows the default traces pipeline:

Learn more about these receivers:

Learn more about these processors:

Learn more about these exporters:

Learn more

See also the following documents: