OpenTelemetry Collector Installation Overview

LogicMonitor provides a wrapped version of OpenTelemetry that is pre-configured to forward traces from your instrumented applications to the LogicMonitor platform. You can install an OpenTelemetry Collector on Linux, Docker, or Kubernetes.

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General Requirements and Considerations for Installing an OpenTelemetry Collector

• Administration user roles can’t install OpenTelemetry collector. 
• You should have manage permissions of:
  • Settings:
    • Data Ingestion > Traces
    • OpenTelemetry Collectors
      DataSources are created with the Push Metrics API by the OpenTelemetry Collector.
    • Installed Modules
  • Resources: All listed resources
    Resources are created if the hosts running the instrumented applications do not already exist in monitoring.
• Your user role must be associated with the user that installs the OpenTelemetry Collector.
• Ensure to check the Allow Creation of API Token checkbox under Settings > User Profile.

For more information, see Users and Roles.

Platform Considerations

LogicMonitor currently supports the following platforms for OpenTelemetry Collector installation:

• Linux/AMD64 architecture
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on the following verified container platforms:
  • Amazon Fargate
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) from Microsoft Azure
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) from Google Cloud

Types of OpenTelemetry Collector Installations

You can install OpenTelemetry Collectors in the following ways:

• OpenTelemetry Collector Installation from LogicMonitor Wizard
• OpenTelemetry Collector Installation from Contrib Distribution