Use the Collector: How to perform common tasks 🔗

Browse the table below to learn how to carry out common tasks with the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

I want to…	See…
Control data pre-ingest	Control data to ingest using the Collector
Obfuscate sensitive data	Use controls for sensitive data in Splunk APM
Uniquely identify an instance	Attributes processor
Use tags or attributes	Use tags or attributes in OpenTelemetry
Remove attributes	Attributes processor
Collect custom metrics	Receive any custom metric with the Collector
Collect Prometheus metrics	Prometheus receiver
Collect logs	Filelog receiver
Collect Kubernetes events	Collect events
Filter Kubernetes elements	Filter Kubernetes elements
Deactivate Kubernetes metrics	Kubernetes cluster receiver
Observe specific events	Receiver creator receiver
Look for support for an environment	Compatibility and requirements for Splunk Observability Cloud
Collector deployment options, such as Amazon Fargate, Ansible, Chef, PCF, or Puppet	Collector deployment tools and options
Look for changes between versions	Main changelog for the Splunk distribution of the Collector Changelog for the Helm chart Collector Contrib repository Upstream changelog (Contrib) Upstream changelog (Core)

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