Manual Configuration With Default Otel Collector Settings File

1. Manual Configuration With Default Otel Collector Settings File
2. Restart The AST Containers

The Otel Collector container points to a single configuration file that is loaded at startup. This config file, by default, loads a list of receivers and pipelines from elsewhere in the directory structure.

The other configuration managent options modify these other files, but the primary config can also be managed however you see fit.

The OTEL Collector Container must be restarted before changes to these files will take effect.

The main otel collector config file is located in /services/otel_collector/defaults/bigip-scraper-config.yaml

Syntax for these files is the Opentelemetry Collector Configuration syntax.

receivers: ${file:/etc/otel-collector-config/receivers.yaml}

processors:
  batch/local:

exporters:
  otlphttp/metrics-bigip:
    endpoint: http://prometheus:9090/api/v1/otlp
  debug/bigip:
    verbosity: basic
    sampling_initial: 5
    sampling_thereafter: 200

service:
  pipelines: ${file:/etc/otel-collector-config/pipelines.yaml}

Any of these files can be modified directly to update settings as desired (e.g. adding additional logging levels).

Restart The AST Containers

Whenever the AST Configuration Files are updated, the containers need to be restarted for the updates to take effect. This can be accomplished in a few ways, but the simplest is typically:

(From the project root directory)

$ docker-compose down
$ docker-compose up -d