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Configuration for sending metrics to the monitoring stack

The OpenTelemetry Collector custom resource (CR) can be configured to create a Prometheus ServiceMonitor CR for scraping the Collector’s pipeline metrics and the enabled Prometheus exporters.

Example of the OpenTelemetry Collector custom resource with the Prometheus exporter
spec:
  mode: deployment
  observability:
    metrics:
      enableMetrics: true (1)
  config: |
    exporters:
      prometheus:
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:8889
        resource_to_telemetry_conversion:
          enabled: true # by default resource attributes are dropped
    service:
      telemetry:
        metrics:
          address: ":8888"
      pipelines:
        metrics:
          receivers: [otlp]
          exporters: [prometheus]
1 Configures the Operator to create the Prometheus ServiceMonitor CR to scrape the Collector’s internal metrics endpoint and Prometheus exporter metric endpoints. The metrics will be stored in the OpenShift monitoring stack.

Alternatively, a manually created Prometheus PodMonitor can provide fine control, for example removing duplicated labels added during Prometheus scraping.

Example of the PodMonitor custom resource that configures the monitoring stack to scrape the Collector metrics
apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: PodMonitor
metadata:
  name: otel-collector
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app.kubernetes.io/name: `<cr_name>-collector` (1)
  podMetricsEndpoints:
  - port: metrics (2)
  - port: promexporter (3)
    relabelings:
    - action: labeldrop
      regex: pod
    - action: labeldrop
      regex: container
    - action: labeldrop
      regex: endpoint
    metricRelabelings:
    - action: labeldrop
      regex: instance
    - action: labeldrop
      regex: job
1 The name of the OpenTelemetry Collector custom resource.
2 The name of the internal metrics port for the OpenTelemetry Collector. This port name is always metrics.
3 The name of the Prometheus exporter port for the OpenTelemetry Collector.