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Send Metrics to SigNoz Cloud

There are two ways in which you can send metrics to SigNoz using OpenTelemetry:

  • From your application
  • From OpenTelemetry Collector

In this document, we will cover how to send metrics from OpenTelemetry Collector. The Collector is a swiss-army knife that can collect metrics from various sources and send them to SigNoz.

Enable a Specific Metric Receiver

SigNoz supports all the receivers that are listed in the opentelemetry-collector-contrib GitHub repository. To configure a new metric receiver, you must edit the receivers and service::pipelines sections of the otel-collector-config.yaml file. The following example shows the default configuration in which the hostmetrics receiver is enabled:

receivers:
otlp:
protocols:
grpc:
endpoint: localhost:4317
http:
endpoint: localhost:4318
hostmetrics:
collection_interval: 30s
scrapers:
cpu: {}
disk: {}
load: {}
filesystem: {}
memory: {}
network: {}
paging: {}
process:
mute_process_name_error: true
mute_process_exe_error: true
mute_process_io_error: true
processes: {}
processors:
batch:
send_batch_size: 1000
timeout: 10s
# Ref: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/README.md
resourcedetection:
detectors: [env, system, ec2] # include ec2 for AWS, gcp for GCP and azure for Azure.
# Using OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES envvar, env detector adds custom labels.
timeout: 2s
override: false
system:
hostname_sources: [os] # alternatively, use [dns,os] for setting FQDN as host.name and os as fallback
exporters:
otlp:
endpoint: "ingest.{region}.signoz.cloud:443" # replace {region} with your region
tls:
insecure: false
headers:
"signoz-access-token": "<SIGNOZ_INGESTION_KEY>"
logging:
verbosity: detailed
service:
telemetry:
metrics:
address: localhost:8888
pipelines:
metrics:
receivers: [otlp]
processors: [batch]
exporters: [otlp]
metrics/hostmetrics:
receivers: [hostmetrics]
processors: [resourcedetection, batch]
exporters: [otlp]

To enable a new OpenTelemetry receiver, follow the steps below:

  1. Open the otel-collector-config.yaml file in a plain-text editor.
  2. Configure your receivers. The following example shows how you can enable a rabbitmq receiver:
receivers:
otlp:
protocols:
grpc:
endpoint: localhost:4317
http:
endpoint: localhost:4318
hostmetrics:
collection_interval: 30s
scrapers:
cpu: {}
disk: {}
load: {}
filesystem: {}
memory: {}
network: {}
paging: {}
process:
mute_process_name_error: true
mute_process_exe_error: true
mute_process_io_error: true
processes: {}
rabbitmq:
endpoint: http://localhost:15672
username: <RABBITMQ_USERNAME>
password: <RABBITMQ_PASSWORD>
collection_interval: 30s
processors:
batch:
send_batch_size: 1000
timeout: 10s
# Ref: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/README.md
resourcedetection:
detectors: [env, system, ec2] # include ec2 for AWS, gcp for GCP and azure for Azure.
# Using OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES envvar, env detector adds custom labels.
timeout: 2s
override: false
system:
hostname_sources: [os] # alternatively, use [dns,os] for setting FQDN as host.name and os as fallback
exporters:
otlp:
endpoint: "ingest.{region}.signoz.cloud:443" # replace {region} with your region
tls:
insecure: false
headers:
"signoz-access-token": "<SIGNOZ_INGESTION_KEY>"
logging:
verbosity: detailed
service:
telemetry:
metrics:
address: localhost:8888
pipelines:
metrics:
receivers: [otlp, rabbitmq]
processors: [batch]
exporters: [otlp]
metrics/hostmetrics:
receivers: [hostmetrics]
processors: [resourcedetection, batch]
exporters: [otlp]

For details about configuring OpenTelemetry receivers, see the README page of the opentelemetry-collector GitHub repository.

Enable a Prometheus Receiver

SigNoz supports all the exporters that are listed on the Exporters and Integrations page of the Prometheus documentation. If you have a running Prometheus instance, and you expose metrics in Prometheus, then you can scrape them in SigNoz by configuring Prometheus receivers in the receivers::prometheus::config::scrape_configs section of the otel-collector-config.yaml file.

To enable a Prometheus receiver, follow the steps below:

  1. Open the otel-collector-config.yaml file in a plain-text editor.
  2. Enable a new Prometheus receiver. Depending on your use case, there are two ways in which you can enable a new Prometheus exporter:
    • By creating a new job: The following example shows how you can enable a Prometheus receiver by creating a new job named my-new-job:
        ...
      # Data sources: metrics
      prometheus:
      config:
      scrape_configs:
      - job_name: "otel-collector"
      scrape_interval: 30s
      static_configs:
      - targets: ["otel-collector:8889"]
      - job_name: "my-new-job"
      scrape_interval: 30s
      static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:8080"]
      ...
      # This file was truncated for brevity.
    • By adding a new target to an existing job: The following example shows the default otel-collector job to which a new target (localhost:8080) was added:
        ...
      # Data sources: metrics
      prometheus:
      config:
      scrape_configs:
      - job_name: "otel-collector"
      scrape_interval: 30s
      static_configs:
      - targets: ["otel-collector:8889", "localhost:8080"]
      ...
      # This file was truncated for brevity.
      Note that all the jobs are scraped in parallel, and all targets inside a job are scraped serially. For more details about configuring jobs and targets, see the following sections of the Prometheus documentation:

Find Metrics available in SigNoz

You can use this metrics to plot in the Dashboard section.

Get Help

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