General guidelines for configuring Collectors

Use this OpenTelemetry Collector configuration example if you want to monitor an environment that isn’t running in Kubernetes.

If your environment uses Kubernetes, follow the quickstart to install and configure your Collectors.

Download the Collector from the opentelemetry-collector-contrib GitHub repo.

This configuration:

Sets Cloud Observability as an exporter endpoint

You need to create an access token for your Cloud Observability project and set it as an environment variable named ${LIGHTSTEP_ACCESS_TOKEN}.
Configures a pipeline for log, metric, and trace data

If you are using a non-OTLP logging receiver (like the filelog receiver), add it to your pipeline on line 257.
Modifies log, metric, and span attributes to conform to the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions
Scrapes host metrics
Enables the batch processor
Enables resource detection
Enables the health_check extension to run liveness checks for the Collector