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Prometheus NGINX VTS 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the prometheus-nginx-vts monitor type to wrap the Prometheus Exporter to collect Prometheus NGINX VTS exporter metrics for Splunk Observability Cloud.

If you use NGINX 0.16 or higher, use the Prometheus NGINX VTS integration.

This integration is available on Linux and Windows.

Benefits 🔗

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

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/prometheus-nginx-vts:
    type: prometheus-nginx-vts
    ... # Additional config

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

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/prometheus-nginx-vts]

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the prometheus-nginx-vts monitor:

Option

Required

Type

Description

httpTimeout

no

int64
HTTP timeout duration for both reads and writes. Must be a

duration string accepted by https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration. Default value is 10s.

username

no

string

User name to use on each request.

password

no

string

Password to use on each request.

useHTTPS

no

bool
If true, the agent connects to the server using HTTPS instead of

plain HTTP. Default value is false.

httpHeaders

no

map of strings
A map of HTTP header names to values. Comma-separated multiple

values for the same message-header are supported.

skipVerify

no

bool
If both useHTTPS and skipVerify are true, the TLS

certificate of the exporter is not verified. Default value is false.

caCertPath

no

string
Path to the CA certificate that has signed the TLS certificate,

unnecessary if skipVerify is set to false.

clientCertPath

no

string
Path to the client TLS certificate to use for TLS required

connections.

clientKeyPath

no

string

Path to the client TLS key to use for TLS required connections.

host

yes

string

Host of the exporter.

port

yes

integer

Port of the exporter.

useServiceAccount

no

bool
Use pod service account to authenticate. Default value is

false.

metricPath

no

string
Path to the metrics endpoint on the exporter server. The default

value is /metrics.

sendAllMetrics

no

bool
Send all the metrics that come out of the Prometheus exporter

without any filtering. This option has no effect when using the Prometheus exporter monitor directly, since there is no built-in filtering. Default value is false.

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration.

Notes 🔗

  • To learn more about the available in Splunk Observability Cloud see Metric types

  • In host-based subscription plans, default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Splunk Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See Metric categories for more information.

  • In MTS-based subscription plans, all metrics are custom.

  • To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics in Add additional metrics

Troubleshooting 🔗

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.