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OpenStack 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the OpenStack monitor type to gather metrics from OpenStack instances.

This integration covers the following OpenStack components:

  • Nova (Compute)

  • Cinder (Block Storage)

  • Neutron (Network)

This integration is available on Linux and Kubernetes.

Benefits 🔗

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

  • View metrics. You can create your own custom dashboards, and most monitors provide built-in dashboards as well. For information about dashboards, see View dashboards in Observability Cloud.

  • View a data-driven visualization of the physical servers, virtual machines, AWS instances, and other resources in your environment that are visible to Infrastructure Monitoring. For information about navigators, see Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring navigators.

  • Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Use the Metric Finder.

Installation 🔗

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:

  2. Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.

  3. Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration 🔗

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

  1. Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.

  2. Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Example 🔗

To activate this integration, add the following to your Collector configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/openstack:
    type: collectd/openstack
    ...  # Additional config

Next, add the monitor to the service > pipelines > metrics > receivers section of your configuration file:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/openstack]

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the OpenStack monitor:

Option

Required

Type

Description

pythonBinary

No

string

Path to the Python binary. If not set, a built-in runtime is used. This setting can include arguments to the binary.

authURL

Yes

string

Keystone authentication URL or endpoint for the OpenStack cloud.

username

Yes

string

Username to authenticate with keystone identity.

password

Yes

string

Password to authenticate with keystone identity.

projectName

No

string

Specify the name of the project to be monitored. The default value is demo.

projectDomainID

No

string

The project domain. The default value is default.

regionName

No

string

The region name for URL discovery. The region name defaults to the first region if multiple regions are available.

userDomainID

No

string

The user domain ID. The default value is default.

skipVerify

No

bool

Skips SSL certificate validation. The default value is false.

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Notes 🔗

  • Learn more about the available metric types in Observability Cloud.

  • Default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See more about metric categories.

  • To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics using the Collector.

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, try these tips:

To learn about even more support options, see Splunk Customer Success.