Chapter 8. Configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector metrics

Prerequisites

• Monitoring for user-defined projects is enabled in the cluster.

Procedure

• To enable metrics of an OpenTelemetry Collector instance, set the spec.observability.metrics.enableMetrics field to true:

  apiVersion: opentelemetry.io/v1beta1
  kind: OpenTelemetryCollector
  metadata:
    name: <name>
  spec:
    observability:
      metrics:
        enableMetrics: true

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• Go to Observe Targets, filter by Source: User, and check that the ServiceMonitors in the opentelemetry-collector-<instance_name> format have the Up status.

Additional resources

• Enabling monitoring for user-defined projects