1. Verify Agent Configuration

1.1 Verify Gateway Configuration

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The OpenTelemetry Gateway serves as a central hub for receiving, processing, and exporting telemetry data. It sits between your telemetry sources (such as applications and services) and your observability backends like Splunk Observability Cloud.

By centralizing telemetry traffic, the gateway enables advanced features such as data filtering, enrichment, transformation, and routing to one or more destinations. It helps reduce the burden on individual services by offloading telemetry processing and ensures consistent, standardized data across distributed systems.

This makes your observability pipeline easier to manage, scale, and analyze—especially in complex, multi-service environments.

Exercise

Open or create your second terminal window and name it Gateway. Navigate to the first exercise directory [WORKSHOP]/1-agent-gateway then check the contents of the gateway.yaml file.

This file outlines the core structure of the OpenTelemetry Collector as deployed in Gateway mode.