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SignalFx Forwarder (deprecated) πŸ”—

Note

This integration is deprecated. If you’re using the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and want to forward data to Splunk Observability Cloud, use the native OTLP receiver. See more at OTLP receiver GitHub documentation.

The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the signalfx-forwarder monitor type to run an HTTP server that listens for data points and trace spans, and forward them to Splunk Observability Cloud. This integration supports the latest formats for data points and spans that the Splunk ingest API endpoint supports.

This integration is available on Linux and Windows.

Benefits πŸ”—

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

Installation πŸ”—

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 πŸ”—

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 πŸ”—

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

receivers:
  smartagent/signalfx-forwarder:
    type: signalfx-forwarder
    ... # Additional config

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

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/signalfx-forwarder]
    traces:
      receivers: [smartagent/signalfx-forwarder]

Note that the defaultSpanTagsFromEndpoint and extraSpanTagsFromEndpoint config options are not compatible with the signalfx-forwarder receiver.

Configuration settings πŸ”—

The following table shows the configuration options for the signalfx-forwarder integration:

Option

Required

Type

Description

listenAddress

no

string

The host and port on which to listen for data points. The

listening server accepts data points on the same HTTP path as the ingest endpoint or gateway. For example, /v2/datapoint or /v1/trace. Requests to other paths return errors with HTTP code 404. The default value is 127.0.0.1:9080.

serverTimeout

no

int64

HTTP timeout duration for both read and write operations.

Accepts a duration string for https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration. The default value is 5s.

sendInternalMetrics

no

bool

Whether to emit internal metrics about the HTTP listener. The

default value is false.

Metrics πŸ”—

There are no metrics available for this integration.

Troubleshooting πŸ”—

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers

Available to prospective customers and free trial users

  • Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers .

  • Join the Splunk #observability user group Slack channel to communicate with customers, partners, and Splunk employees worldwide. To join, see Chat groups in the Get Started with Splunk Community manual.

This page was last updated on Sep 18, 2024.