Monitor the OpenTelemetry Collector

Use pre-built OpenTelemetry Collector dashboards

Cloud Observability provides pre-built OpenTelemetry Collector dashboards using our Terraform provider. These modules allow you to monitor the health of your OpenTelemetry Collector using metrics such as CPU/memory usage, CPU/memory limits, network usage, and IOPS.

The OpenTelemetry Collector modules are currently in beta.

Requirements

Deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector modules

  1. In Cloud Observability, you can view your metrics in either a notebook or dashboard.

    When using notebooks you can click on any Kubernets metrics in the all telemetry dropdown. Check the scrape_series_added metric first, which lets you know many Kubernetes metrics are being ingested.

    For dashboards, there are several pre-built dashboards that display Kubernetes metrics. For example, to see Pod metrics, in the Dashboard view, click Create a pre-built dashboard, and choose “K8S Pod Resources”.

    otel-operator-k8s-pod-dashboard-example

See also

Create and manage dashboards

Create alerts

Updated Jun 3, 2022