Azure to Splunk Observability via Otel Collector

[Sukesh]

Hi,

I want to use a common Otel Collector gateway to collect traces and metrics from different sources. One of the sources I want to collect traces and metrics from is Azure API Management. How can I configure Azure API Management to send traces and metrics to an existing Otel Collector integrated with Splunk Observability.

The Splunk documentation talks about how to create a separate integration from Splunk Observability to Azure cloud. However I dont want to create a separate integration but rather use an existing collector gateway. 

Regards,

Sukesh

[bishida]

My understanding is that Azure API Management doesn't support OTel natively. So, I think your solution will require some creativity on the Azure side. Perhaps you could look into ways to enable traces with Application insights and then see if you can export them to OTel from there (this is just an idea--I've never tried this).

You might be able to get metrics using OTel with the azuremonitor receiver.
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/azuremonitorrec...