Network interface I/O 🔗

Description 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector provides this integration as the net-io monitor type for the Smart Agent Receiver.

This monitor reports I/O metrics about network interfaces.

Installation 🔗

This monitor is available in the Smart Agent Receiver, which is part of the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

To install this integration:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform.
Configure the monitor, as described in the next section.

Configuration 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector allows embedding a Smart Agent monitor configuration in an associated Smart Agent Receiver instance.

Note: Providing a net-io monitor entry in your Collector or Smart Agent (deprecated) configuration is required for its use. Use the appropriate form for your agent type.

Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector 🔗

If you are using the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector and want to collect network interface I/O and TCP connection metrics, use the Host metrics receiver.

Smart Agent 🔗

To activate this monitor in the Smart Agent, add the following to your agent configuration:

monitors:  # All monitor config goes under this key
  - type: net-io
    ...  # Additional config

See Smart Agent example configuration for an autogenerated example of a YAML configuration file, with default values where applicable.

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the net-io monitor:

Option	Required	Type	Description
`interfaces`	no	`list of strings`	The network interfaces to send metrics about. This is an overridable set. (default: `[* !/^lo\d$/ !/^docker./ !/^t(un

On Linux hosts, this monitor relies on the /proc filesystem. If the underlying host’s /proc file system is mounted somewhere other than /proc, specify the path using the top-level configuration procPath, as shown in the following example:

procPath: /proc
monitors:
 - type: net-io

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.

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