Collector Manifest

Configuring AWS Distro for Open Telemetry Collector Kubernetes manifest

Open $ vim kubernetes/adot/otel-container-insights-infra.yaml. Inside you’ll notice an annotation for the AWSDistroOpenTelemetryRole in the ServiceAccount resource. 

---
# create cwagent service account and role binding
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: aws-otel-sa
  namespace: aws-otel-eks
  annotations:
    eks.amazonaws.com/role-arn: arn:aws:iam::${ACCOUNT_ID}:role/AWSDistroOpenTelemetryRole

Also take a look at the ConfigMap outlining the OTEL receivers, processors, and exporters: 

data:
  otel-agent-config: |
    extensions:
      health_check:

    receivers:
      awscontainerinsightreceiver:

    processors:
      batch/metrics:
        timeout: 60s

    exporters:
      awsemf:
        namespace: ContainerInsights
        ...

Scroll down further in the file, and you’ll see a pipeline, which grabs data from the Container Insight receiver, batching, and exporting to CloudWatch (Embedded Metric).

Open Telemetry allows multiple receivers, processors, and exporters in a pipeline. For example if you wanted to send all these collected Container Insight metrics to a second destination it’d be as simple as defining the additional exporter and adding it to the pipeline.

Now Let’s close the file by hitting esc, typing :q! , and hitting enter.