Set up the OpenTelemetry eBPF collector to capture network-level telemetry

domain: opentelemetry.io · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Deploy the otel-ebpf-profiler or network-explorer component as a privileged DaemonSet on each node
  2. Configure the kernel collector to point its OTLP exporter at the OTel Collector pipeline
  3. Define which network namespaces or pods to include or exclude using the selector configuration
  4. Confirm the host has the required kernel headers or BTF file present for the eBPF programs to load
  5. Correlate the captured network spans with application-level spans using the same trace-context headers

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