VictoriaMetrics/deployment/docker/victorialogs/opentelemetry-collector

Docker compose OpenTelemetry collector integration with VictoriaLogs

The folder contains examples of OpenTelemetry collector integration with VictoriaLogs using protocols:

• loki
• otlp
• syslog
• elasticsearch single node
• elasticsearch HA mode

To spin-up environment cd to any of listed above directories run the following command:

docker compose up -d 

To shut down the docker-compose environment run the following command:

docker compose down
docker compose rm -f

The docker compose file contains the following components:

• collector - logs collection agent configured to collect and write data to victorialogs
• victorialogs - logs database, receives data from collector agent
• victoriametrics - metrics database, which collects metrics from victorialogs and collector for observability purposes

Querying the data

• vmui - a web UI is accessible by http://localhost:9428/select/vmui
• for querying the data via command-line please check these docs

OpenTelemetry collector configuration example can be found below:

• loki
• otlp
• syslog
• elasticsearch single node
• elasticsearch HA mode

Please, note that _stream_fields parameter must follow recommended best practices to achieve better performance.