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How to resolve error when setting up Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes?

arusoft
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I am trying to setup OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes in Splunk Cloud.

For this I followed the following article

Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes 

I am using google Kubernetes engine. As mentioned in article I tried below two helm to  install Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector in a Kubernetes cluster. None of these worked and I keep getting error message.

 

helm install my-splunk-otel-collector --set="splunkPlatform.endpoint=https://http-inputs-prd-p-19lmt.splunkcloud.com:8088/services/collector/event,splunkPlatform.token=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX,splunkPlatform.index=main,clusterName=spluk-kub" splunk-otel-collector-chart/splunk-otel-collector  


helm install my-splunk-otel-collector --set="splunkPlatform.endpoint=https://prd-p-19lmt.splunkcloud.com:8088/services/collector/event,splunkPlatform.token=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX,splunkPlatform.index=main,clusterName=spluk-kub" splunk-otel-collector-chart/splunk-otel-collector  

 

Here is how the error log loooks like

 

2022-09-01T04:43:43.953Z info exporterhelper/queued_retry.go:427 Exporting failed. Will retry the request after interval. {"kind": "exporter", "data_type": "logs", "name": "splunk_hec/platform_logs", "error": "Post \"https://http-inputs-prd-p-19lmt.splunkcloud.com:8088/services/collector/event\": dial tcp: lookup http-inputs-prd-p-19lmt.splunkcloud.com on 10.4.0.10:53: no such host", "interval": "32.444167474s"}
2022-09-01T04:43:52.374Z error exporterhelper/queued_retry.go:176 Exporting failed. No more retries left. Dropping data. {"kind": "exporter", "data_type": "logs", "name": "splunk_hec/platform_logs", "error": "max elapsed time expired Post \"https://http-inputs-prd-p-19lmt.splunkcloud.com:8088/services/collector/event\": dial tcp: lookup http-inputs-prd-p-19lmt.splunkcloud.com on 10.4.0.10:53: no such host", "dropped_items": 1}
go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/exporterhelper.(*queuedRetrySender).onTemporaryFailure

 

Please advice . Thank you.

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arusoft
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arusoft
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This is resolved . I got answer from Github

 

Error setting up Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes 

 

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