OTLP Kubernetes Ingest

This project contains Kubernetes manifests for self-deployed OTLP ingest on Kubernetes.

Running on GKE

The recommended way to add the collector to your deployment is using kubectl apply. If running on a GKE Autopilot cluster (or any cluster with Workload Identity), you must follow the prerequisite steps to set up a Workload Identity-enabled service account below. Otherwise, you can skip to the next section.

Workload Identity prequisites

Follow the Workload Identity docs to set up an IAM service account in your GCP project with permission to use Workload Identity and write logs, traces, and metrics:

export GCLOUD_PROJECT=<your project id>

Then run the following to create the service account with the appropriate permissions:

gcloud iam service-accounts create opentelemetry-collector \
    --project=${GCLOUD_PROJECT}
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding ${GCLOUD_PROJECT} \
    --member "serviceAccount:opentelemetry-collector@${GCLOUD_PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role "roles/logging.logWriter"
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding ${GCLOUD_PROJECT} \
    --member "serviceAccount:opentelemetry-collector@${GCLOUD_PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role "roles/monitoring.metricWriter"
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding ${GCLOUD_PROJECT} \
    --member "serviceAccount:opentelemetry-collector@${GCLOUD_PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role "roles/cloudtrace.agent"
gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding opentelemetry-collector@${GCLOUD_PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
    --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
    --member "serviceAccount:${GCLOUD_PROJECT}.svc.id.goog[opentelemetry/opentelemetry-collector]" \
    --project ${GCLOUD_PROJECT}

Install the manifests

First, make sure you have followed the Workload Identity setup steps above. Update the manifests to annotate the Kubernetes service account with your project:

sed -i "s/%GCLOUD_PROJECT%/${GCLOUD_PROJECT}/g" collector/*

Install the manifests:

kubectl apply -f collector/.

[Optional] Run the OpenTelemetry demo application alongside the collector

To test out and see the deployment in action, you can run the demo OpenTemetry application using

kubectl apply  -f sample/.

See Telemetry in Google Cloud Observability

Metrics, Log and Traces should be now available in your project in Cloud Observability. You can see metrics under "Prometheus Target" in Cloud Monitoring.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

License

Apache 2.0; see LICENSE for details.

Disclaimer

This project is not an official Google project. It is not supported by Google and Google specifically disclaims all warranties as to its quality, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

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