Memory 🔗

Description 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector provides this integration as the memory monitor via the Smart Agent Receiver. This monitor sends memory usage stats for the underlying host.

Installation 🔗

This monitor is available in the SignalFx 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 memory monitor entry in your Smart Agent or Collector configuration is required for its use. Use the appropriate form for your agent type.

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: collectd/memory
   ...  # Additional config

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

Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector 🔗

If you are using the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector and want to collect memory utilization metrics, use the Host metrics receiver.

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud:

Ask questions and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers.
If you have a support contract, email observability-support@splunk.com. See Splunk Customer Success for more information.
To get professional help with optimizing your Splunk software investment, see Splunk Services.

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