otelcol-distributions

This repository is dedicated to custom distributions of the OpenTelemetry Collector, tailored to meet specific observability needs. The current ones you can find are:

• GitHub Actions: Tailored to capture and analyse events from GitHub workflows and jobs, facilitating better insights into CI/CD processes.
• GitLab: Focused on GitLab-specific events, enabling comprehensive observability across GitLab CI/CD pipelines and builds.
• Google Cloud Spanner: Customised to observe Google Spanner database metrics, with the addition of fine-grained access control for Spanner databases.

Getting Started

Docker

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Adding a new distribution

To add a new distribution to this repository:

1. create a directory under distributions and place the manifest.yaml there
2. add ./github/workflows/ci-<distribution>.yaml and ./github/workflows/release-<distribution>.yaml files based on one of the existing distributions

You can test your new distribution with:

./test/test.sh -d YOUR_DISTRIBUTION

Or, to run everything the CI would run:

make ci