Collect Metrics

The Sumo Logic Distribution for OpenTelemetry Collector provides various receivers for metrics collection. The full list of OpenTelemetry receivers are available on OpenTelemetry collector repository.

To use the receiver, you need to define it in the receivers: section and then use it in the pipeline.

Consider the following example configuration for collecting Host Metrics Source. This configuration can be placed in conf.d directory:

receivers:
  hostmetrics/linux/localhost:
    scrapers:
      cpu:
        metrics:
          system.cpu.utilization:
            enabled: true
      load: null
      memory:
        metrics:
          system.memory.utilization:
            enabled: true
      disk: null
      filesystem:
        metrics:
          system.filesystem.utilization:
            enabled: true
      network: null
      paging: null
      process:
        mute_process_name_error: true
        metrics:
          process.threads:
            enabled: true
          process.paging.faults:
            enabled: true
          process.cpu.utilization:
            enabled: true
          process.memory.utilization:
            enabled: true
          process.signals_pending:
            enabled: true
          process.open_file_descriptors:
            enabled: true
          process.context_switches:
            enabled: true
          process.disk.operations:
            enabled: true
processors:
  resource/linux_resource_attributes/localhost:
    attributes:
      - key: sumo.datasource
        value: linux
        action: insert
service:
  pipelines:
    metrics/linux/localhost:
      receivers:
        - hostmetrics/linux/localhost
      processors:
        - memory_limiter
        - resource/linux_resource_attributes/localhost
        - resourcedetection/system
        - batch
      exporters:
        - sumologic

note

You'll need to restart the collector process in order to apply changes.

tip

Refer to our Additional Configurations Reference for more details about OpenTelemetry configuration.