SolarWinds OpenTelemetry Collector

Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector with all available components bundled within from opentelemetry-collector and opentelemetry-collector-contrib.

Components

The SolarWinds OpenTelemetry collector contains following components:

• receivers
  • full set of opentelemetry-collector receivers
  • full set of opentelemetry-collector-contrib receivers
• processors
  • full set of opentelemetry-collector processors
  • full set of opentelemetry-collector-contrib processors
• exporters
  • otlpexporter
  • fileexporter
  • solarwindsexporter
  • debugexporter
  • nopexporter
• extensions
  • full set of opentelemetry-collector extensions
  • full set of opentelemetry-collector-contrib extensions
• connectors
  • full set of opentelemetry-collector connectors
  • full set of opentelemetry-collector-contrib connectors

Installation

Binary

• build in cmd/solarwinds-otel-collector with go build .
• after successful build, solarwinds-otel-collector should be present in cmd/solarwinds-otel-collector
• run solarwinds-otel-collector --config=example_config.yaml

Docker

See full docker documentation.

CI/CD

The SolarWinds OpenTelemetry Collector utilizes GitHub Actions pipeline. The standard build pipeline is triggered with each PR opened to main or release branch and consists of:

• build of SolarWinds OpenTelemetry Collector docker image

The release pipeline is triggered with designated tag publishing and consists of:

• build of SolarWinds OpenTelemetry Collector docker image and its publishing to DockerHub
• creation of GitHub release

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.