topic Re: Issue with accepting splunk_hec as exporter for OpenTelemetry Collector in Getting Data In

Issue with accepting splunk_hec as exporter for OpenTelemetry Collector

slipinski — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:25:11 GMT

Hello.

I'm trying to transfer metric collected from Prometheus to my cloud instance.

According to https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/gdi/opentelemetry/components/splunk-hec-exporter.html should use splunk_hec exporter.

Configurtion for OpenTelemetry looks like

receivers: prometheus: config: scrape_configs: - job_name: 'prometheus' scrape_interval: 10s static_configs: - targets: ['localhost:9090'] exporters: splunk_hec: token: "xxxxxxxx" endpoint: "https://http-inputs-xxxx.splunkcloud.com/services/collector" source: "lab" sourcetype: "lab" service: pipelines: metrics: receivers: [prometheus] exporters: [splunk_hec]

but I'm receiving error that splunk_hec is not accepted as an exporter.

error decoding 'exporters': unknown type: "splunk_hec" for id: "splunk_hec" (valid values: [nop otlp kafka zipkin debug otlphttp file opencensus prometheus prometheusremotewrite])

Do you have to use any intermittent solution to achieve this goal?

Thank.

Re: Issue with accepting splunk_hec as exporter for OpenTelemetry Collector

dural_yyz — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:27:00 GMT

Your services and receivers according to documentation seem more designed for logs an not metrics. Here is another sample from the documentation that seems more suited for metrics.

pipelines: metrics: receivers: [prometheus] processors: [batch] exporters: [splunk_hec/metrics] receivers: prometheus: config: scrape_configs: - job_name: 'otel-collector' scrape_interval: 5s static_configs: - targets: ['<container_name>:<container_port>'] exporters: splunk_hec/metrics: # Splunk HTTP Event Collector token. token: "00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000000" # URL to a Splunk instance to send data to. endpoint: "https://splunk:8088/services/collector" # Optional Splunk source: https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Source source: "app" # Optional Splunk source type: https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Sourcetype sourcetype: "jvm_metrics" # Splunk index, optional name of the Splunk index targeted. index: "metrics"

Re: Issue with accepting splunk_hec as exporter for OpenTelemetry Collector

slipinski — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:45:15 GMT

Same error. In essence, it doesn't recognise splunk_hec as a possible exporter. I'm on the latest version of Opentelemetry collector.