Turn on OpenTelemetry Collectors in Splunk Enterprise

Turn on OpenTelemetry Collectors management and connect collectors to Splunk Enterprise.

You can view OTel Collectors after connecting them to Splunk Enterprise. To configure OTel Collectors, perform the following tasks:

  1. Configure Splunk Enterprise and enable OpenTelemetry Collectors
  2. Configure open-source OTel Collector

Before you begin

To use OTel Collectors, make sure you fulfill the following requirements:

  • Use Splunk Enterprise 10.0.0 or higher.
  • Use the admin role.
  • Use agent management on Linux on AMD64.
Note: If you want to use OTel Collectors fleet overview capability, Splunk Enterprise must run on Linux with the AMD64 architecture. OTel Collectors can run on any architecture supported by the OpenTelemetry project.