Collecting logs with OpenTelemetry

You can collect logs from Linux, Windows, or Kubernetes platforms and send them to the Instana agent by using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Use the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Collector Contrib package version 0.110.0 or later, which includes many major bug fixes to the OTEL Collector and open source community-driven plug-ins for various scenarios. Download and configuration instructions for this package are provided in the following section.

For more information about monitoring and analyzing logs with Instana, see Logging.

To enable TLS encryption, see Sending OpenTelemetry data to the Instana agent.

Collecting Linux system logs

You can collect logs from Linux-based operating systems and send them to Instana by using the OTEL Collector. For more information, see Collecting Linux logs with OpenTelemetry.

Collecting Windows event logs

You can collect logs from Windows-based operating systems and send them to Instana by using the OTEL Collector. For more information, see Collecting Windows logs with OpenTelemetry.

Collecting logs by using Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift

You can collect logs and send them to Instana by running the OpenTelemetry Collector in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. For more information, see Collecting logs with OpenTelemetry by running it in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.