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Kubernetes OpenTelemetry Health Check

Checks the OTEL collector's logs and metrics to determine its health, such as large queues or errors.

Note: if you're having trouble connecting to your otel collector, change the deployment name to another workload in the namespace

Tasks

Scan OpenTelemetry Logs For Dropped Spans In Namespace

Check OpenTelemetry Collector Logs For Errors In Namespace

Query Collector Queued Spans in Namespace

Configuration

The TaskSet requires initialization to import necessary secrets, services, and user variables. The following variables should be set:

  • kubeconfig: The kubeconfig secret containing access info for the cluster.
  • KUBERNETES_DISTRIBUTION_BINARY: Which binary to use for Kubernetes CLI commands. Default value is kubectl.
  • CONTEXT: The Kubernetes context to operate within.
  • NAMESPACE: The name of the namespace to search. Leave it blank to search in all namespaces.
  • WORKLOAD_SERVICE: Service name to curl against for metrics.
  • WORKLOAD_NAME: Workload used for exec requests.
  • METRICS_PORT: The port to use to request metrics from.

Requirements

  • A kubeconfig with appropriate RBAC permissions to perform the desired command.

TODO

  • Consider additional tasks