Fix the OpenTelemetry Collector health_check extension endpoint so Kubernetes liveness probes succeed

domain: opentelemetry.io · 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Understand the default: the health_check extension binds to localhost:13133 out of the box, which is reachable only from within the Collector process itself.
  2. In your Collector config, add or update the extensions block to override the endpoint: set endpoint: 0.0.0.0:13133 under health_check so the extension listens on all interfaces.
  3. Expose port 13133 in your Kubernetes Pod spec and, if using a DaemonSet or Deployment, in the associated Service if cluster-internal probe routing requires it.
  4. Configure your liveness and readiness probes to HTTP GET the /health path on port 13133 of the Pod IP; the extension returns HTTP 200 when the Collector is healthy.
  5. Restart the Collector pod and confirm the probe succeeds with kubectl describe pod; look for the Liveness probe succeeded log line.

Known gotchas

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