Configure Splunk Add-On for OpenTelemetry Collector to use HTTP_PROXY, without affecting other traffick

[las]

Hi.

We are starting to use Splunk Infrastructure monitoring, and want to deploy the Otel-Collector using our existing Splunk infrastructure (Deployment Server).
We would really like to send the Otel data to IM using a HTTP_PROXY, but do not want to change the dataflow for the entire server, so only a local HTTP_PROXY for the otel-collector.

As I read the documentation you need to set environment variables for the entire server and not just the otel-collector process.

Has anyone any experience using HTTP_PROXY and Otel-Collector?

Kind regards

las

[bishida]

Hi,

I think you can set variables like HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, and NO_PROXY in your splunk-otel-collector.conf file so they only apply to the collector and not the entire server.

[bishida]

Oh, wait--I see, you are using the TA. splunk-otel-collector.conf is probably not the place for this scenario. I'll have to look in to this more.