Advanced OpenTelemetry Collector

Pre-requisites

5 minutes

Prerequisites

Exercise

Create a directory: In your environment create a new directory and change into it:

bash 
mkdir advanced-otel-workshop && \
cd advanced-otel-workshop

We will refer to this directory as [WORKSHOP] for the remainder of the workshop.

Remove any existing OpenTelemetry Collectors

If you have completed the Splunk IM workshop, please ensure you have deleted the collector running in Kubernetes before continuing. This can be done by running the following command:

bash 
helm delete splunk-otel-collector

The EC2 instance in that case may also run some services that can interfere with this workshop , so run the following command to make sure they are stopped if present:

bash 
kubectl delete ~/workshop/apm/deployment.yaml

Download workshop binaries: Change into your [WORKSHOP] directory and download the OpenTelemetry Collector, Load Generator binaries and setup script:

bash 
curl -L https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/releases/download/v0.136.0/otelcol_linux_amd64 -o otelcol && \
curl -L https://github.com/splunk/observability-workshop/raw/refs/heads/main/workshop/ninja/advanced-otel/loadgen/build/loadgen-linux-amd64 -o loadgen && \
curl -L https://github.com/splunk/observability-workshop/raw/refs/heads/main/workshop/ninja/advanced-otel/setup-workshop.sh -o setup-workshop.sh && \
chmod +x setup-workshop.sh
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