open-telemetry-addon

OtelCollector-Addon

What is OtelCollector-Addon?

OtelCollector Addon is a pluggable addon working on the extensibility provided by addon-framework which automates the installation of otelCollector on both hub cluster and managed clusters and jaeget-all-in-one on hub cluster for processing and storing the traces.

OtelCollecotr Addon consists of two components:

• Addon-Manager: Manages the installation of hub components for setting up the Addon

• Addon-Agent: Manages the installation of collector agents in the managed clustres.

The overall architecture is shown below:

Installing via Helm Chart :

$ helm install \
    -n open-cluster-management-addon --create-namespace \
    otel-collector charts/otel

Verifying the addOn :

$ kubectl -n open-cluster-management-addon get pod
NAME                                            READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
jaeger-all-in-one-57dcf4b5-ltt46                1/1     Running   0          65s
otel-collector-75fd748b4c-cbt7k                 1/1     Running   0          65s
otel-collector-addon-manager-568885c78b-pl9db   1/1     Running   0          67s