Collect Windows data 🔗
The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector is a package that provides integrated collection and forwarding for all telemetry types for Windows. You can deploy the Collector to gather telemetry for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, Splunk APM, or Splunk Log Observer.
Supported versions 🔗
The Collector supports the following Windows versions:
Windows Server 2012 64-bit
Windows Server 2016 64-bit
Windows Server 2019 64-bit
Windows Server 2022 64-bit
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 Pro
Note
PowerShell 3.0 or higher is required.
Getting started 🔗
Splunk Observability Cloud offers a guided setup to install the Collector:
Log in to Splunk Observability Cloud.
Open the Windows guided setup . Optionally, you can navigate to the guided setup on your own:
In the navigation menu, select + Add Integration to open the Integrate Your Data page.
, then selectIn the integration filter menu, select All.
Select Windows.
Select Add Connection. The integration guided setup appears.
Follow the steps in the guided setup.
For advanced installation instructions, see Install the Collector for Windows with the installer script.
Learn more 🔗
Configure the Collector. See Configure the Collector.
Learn about the Collector commands. See Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector commands reference.
Troubleshoot Collector issues. See Troubleshoot the Collector.
For a list of host and application monitors, see Available host and application monitors in Splunk Observability Cloud.