In this episode, Henrik Rexed @HenrikRexed will delve deep into the observability of the OpenTelemetry Collector. If you’re curious about how to monitor your OpenTelemetry Collector effectively, this episode is for you.
🚀 Episode Highlights:
- Introduction to Observability: Understanding the critical role of observability in maintaining the health of your OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Key Metrics to Monitor: Learn about essential metrics like CPU usage, memory, and Garbage Collector behavior that help diagnose collector issues.
- Log Collection Strategies: Discover how to collect and analyze your collector's logs to identify pipeline issues.
- Enabling Metrics and Logs: Step-by-step guide on enabling metrics and log collection in the OpenTelemetry Collector.
- New Feature Teaser: Explore the exciting new feature flag for extended telemetry support in the latest OpenTelemetry Collector version.
- Practical Examples: See practical examples and configurations to optimize your observability setup, including setting up dashboards and monitoring pipelines.
🚀 What You’ll Learn:
- Understanding Collector Issues: Key aspects to monitor to ensure your OpenTelemetry Collector’s health.
- Resource Usage Reporting: Techniques to report CPU, memory, and other critical resource usage metrics.
- Log Collection Best Practices: Efficiently collect and analyze logs from both bare metal and Kubernetes deployments.
- Using Feature Flags: Leveraging the new feature flag for extended telemetry in your OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Pipeline Monitoring: Set up metrics and log collection to monitor your data pipeline effectively.
🚀 Practical Insights:
- Prometheus Integration: Learn how to integrate Prometheus to collect internal metrics from your OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Collector Configuration: Detailed configuration examples for enabling telemetry, using memory-limiter and batch processors.
- Dashboard Setup: See example dashboards to visualize your collector’s health and performance.
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📖 Chapters 📖
00:00 Welcome - Importance of observability
01:49 Collector KPI - Key performance indicators
09:53 Enable Metrics and Logs - How to enable metrics and logs
12:36 Observability Feature Flag - New feature flag for extended telemetry
18:16 Summary and final thoughts
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🔗 Additional Links
FileLog receiver
Collector monitoring
Collector Observability
GitHub tutorial
Blog
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