Otel collector in ECS Fargate infrastructure monitoring

[TomasHeredia]

Hi all!

We are setting up a lab in AWS ECS where all workloads are deployed as Fargate Tasks. We successfuly deployed and configured an otel-collector (http://quay.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector:latest) as a fargate task, which is actually sending traces (seen at APM in splunk observability), and metrics, which can be seen in the metrics finder.

Is there any way to get tasks/containers appear in  the Infrastructure navigator?

Thanks!

[TomasHeredia]

Thank you very much Bishida!

We tried AWS integration from Splunk's Data Management/Add Integration/AWS, which connected successfully.

Anyway, we noted that the ECS widget shown in your image doesn't show unless we have an EC2 ECS cluster, but not for our use case, wich is a Serverless (Fargate) Cluster.

Do you know if theres is any way to poll this kind of cluster information?

Thanks!

[bishida]

Have you connected your AWS to Splunk Observability Cloud? If so, you should be able to see an ECS navigator in the Infrastructure view.

https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/gdi/get-data-in/connect/aws/get-awstoc.html

Another possible option is to check out Metric Finder and search for ecs.task.* metrics and build a chart using them and save it to a dashboard. Since you already deployed the OTel collector as a task, it should be sending in ecs.task.* metrics.

[TomasHeredia]

Thank you very much Bishida!

We tried AWS integration from Splunk's Data Management/Add Integration/AWS, which connected successfully.

Anyway, we noted that the ECS widget shown in your image doesn't show unless we have an EC2 ECS cluster, but not for our use case, wich is a Serverless (Fargate) Cluster.

Do you know if theres is any way to poll this kind of cluster information?

Thanks!