If you’re using Prometheus metrics, you can send those metrics directly to Cloud Observability using the OpenTelemetry Collector, running in Kubernetes.
The OpenTelemetry Collector ingests Prometheus metrics from targets, such as Envoy, RabbitMQ, HAProxy, and other infrastructure components. These components use the Prometheus exporter to send metrics to the Collector. The Collector then uses the Prometheus receiver to scrape the target metrics, and the Cloud Observability OTLP exporter to send the metrics to Cloud Observability.
To send Prometheus metrics to Cloud Observability, follow our Quickstart.
See also
Performance test and tune the Collector
Updated Aug 30, 2022