Deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes

1. Connect to EC2 instance

You will be able to connect to the workshop instance by using SSH from your Mac, Linux or Windows device. Open the link to the sheet provided by your instructor. This sheet contains the IP addresses and the password for the workshop instances.

2. Install Splunk OTel using Helm

Install the OpenTelemetry Collector using the Splunk Helm chart. First, add the Splunk Helm chart repository and update:

helm repo add splunk-otel-collector-chart https://signalfx.github.io/splunk-otel-collector-chart && helm repo update

Using ACCESS_TOKEN=<REDACTED>
Using REALM=eu0
"splunk-otel-collector-chart" has been added to your repositories
Using ACCESS_TOKEN=<REDACTED>
Using REALM=eu0
Hang tight while we grab the latest from your chart repositories...
...Successfully got an update from the "splunk-otel-collector-chart" chart repository
Update Complete. ⎈Happy Helming!⎈

Install the OpenTelemetry Collector Helm with the following commands, do NOT edit this:

helm install splunk-otel-collector --version 0.111.0 \
--set="splunkObservability.realm=$REALM" \
--set="splunkObservability.accessToken=$ACCESS_TOKEN" \
--set="clusterName=$INSTANCE-k3s-cluster" \
--set="logsEngine=otel" \
--set="splunkPlatform.endpoint=$HEC_URL" \
--set="splunkPlatform.token=$HEC_TOKEN" \
--set="splunkPlatform.index=splunk4rookies-workshop" \
splunk-otel-collector-chart/splunk-otel-collector \
-f ~/workshop/k3s/otel-collector.yaml

3. Verify Deployment

You can monitor the progress of the deployment by running kubectl get pods which should typically report that the new pods are up and running after about 30 seconds.

Ensure the status is reported as Running before continuing.

kubectl get pods

NAME                                                          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
splunk-otel-collector-agent-pvstb                             2/2     Running   0          19s
splunk-otel-collector-k8s-cluster-receiver-6c454894f8-mqs8n   1/1     Running   0          19s

Use the label set by the helm install to tail logs (You will need to press ctrl + c to exit).

kubectl logs -l app=splunk-otel-collector -f --container otel-collector

Or use the installed k9s terminal UI.

helm delete splunk-otel-collector