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OpenTelemetry Operator

Wrapper around the upstream opentelemetry-operator (v0.120.2) and opentelemetry-collector (v0.169.0) Helm charts. Installs the operator and CRDs (OpenTelemetryCollector, Instrumentation) that manage OpenTelemetry Collector deployments and language auto-instrumentation declaratively.

Why it's in KubeAid

openobserve's log/metrics/trace pipeline (the openobserve-collector sub-chart) is built entirely on these CRDs: its agent DaemonSet and gateway StatefulSet are both OpenTelemetryCollector resources (opentelemetry.io/v1beta1), and its per-language auto-instrumentation (instrumentation-go.yaml, -java.yaml, -python.yaml, -nodejs.yaml, -dotnet.yaml) are Instrumentation resources (opentelemetry.io/v1alpha1). This operator must be installed before openobserve-collector can reconcile any of them.

Prerequisites

  • Deploy this chart before openobserve / openobserve-collector - the OpenObserve docs call this out explicitly.

Key values / KubeAid-specific configuration

ValueDescriptionDefault
opentelemetry-operator.manager.collectorImage.repositoryDefault collector image the operator injects for OpenTelemetryCollector CRsotel/opentelemetry-collector-k8s
opentelemetry-collector.image.repositoryImage for this chart's own collector releaseotel/opentelemetry-collector-k8s
opentelemetry-collector.modeDeployment mode for this chart's own collectordaemonset