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OpenTelemetry

An output plugin to submit Metrics to an OpenTelemetry endpoint

The OpenTelemetry plugin allows you to take metrics from Fluent Bit and submit them to an OpenTelemetry HTTP endpoint.

Important Note: At the moment only HTTP endpoints are supported.

Key

Description

Default

Getting Started

The OpenTelemetry plugin only works with metrics collected by one of the from metric input plugins. In the following example, host metrics are collected by the node exporter metrics plugin and then delivered by the OpenTelemetry output plugin.

# Node Exporter Metrics + OpenTelemetry output plugin
# -------------------------------------------
# The following example collects host metrics on Linux and delivers
# them through the OpenTelemetry plugin to a local collector :
#
[SERVICE]
    Flush                1
    Log_level            info

[INPUT]
    Name                 node_exporter_metrics
    Tag                  node_metrics
    Scrape_interval      2

[OUTPUT]
    Name                 opentelemetry
    Match                node_metrics
    Host                 localhost
    Port                 443
    Uri                  /v1/metrics
    Log_response_payload True
    Tls                  On
    Tls.verify           Off
    # add user-defined labels
    add_label            app fluent-bit
    add_label            color blue