Advanced configuration for Linux 🔗
The following sections describe available settings for configuring the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Linux.
Change the default configuration file 🔗
The Collector comes with a default configuration as explained in Collector default configuration.
See full_config_linux.yaml for extended configuration options. This configuration requires using OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib project or a similar distribution.
After you modify the configuration, restart the Collector service. For example:
sudo systemctl restart splunk-otel-collector
You can view splunk-otel-collector service logs and errors in the systemd journal using the following command:
sudo journalctl -u splunk-otel-collector