This repo contains Firefly's OpenTelemetry collector build. The collector is included in the data-pipeline so there is no need to install or host it separately. However, this repo does contain the necessary toolchain to build your own collector if you wish to add additional receivers, processors or exporters. To do so please see setup instructions below.
Navigate to config/builder-config.yaml to add additional components.
Run the following command to build the collector once changes have been made:
$ ./bin/ocb62 --config ./config/builder-config.yaml
The ocb62 binary is for linux_amd64. Alternative releases can be found here.
You can test the newly build collector by running:
$ ./otel-collector/collector --config=./config/otel-collector-config.yaml
The collector is designed to fit into Firefly's architecture, so you will get a message regarding the inability to find promscale when running it as an independent container.
Run the following to build a docker image:
$ docker build -t firefly-collector .
You can then alter Firefly's data-pipeline docker-compose to accomodate your new collector.