IOAM Collector

The IOAM Collector is used inside the Cross-Layer Telemetry (CLT) project.

Its role is to enhance OpenTelemetry traces and spans for a OpenTelemetry Collector compatible backend with IOAM data.

Building

git clone https://github.com/Advanced-Observability/ioam-collector
cd ioam-collector
go build

Running

1. Set the environment variable OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT to the endpoint URL of your OpenTelemetry Collector. The list of compatible environment variables can be found here.
2. Run the executable

By default, it listens on port 7123, configurable with the -p flag.

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="https://localhost:443" ./ioam-collector -p 7124