Resource Detection Processor
Status |
|
Stability |
beta |
Supported pipeline types |
traces, metrics, logs |
Distributions |
contrib |
The resource detection processor can be used to detect resource information from the host,
in a format that conforms to the OpenTelemetry resource semantic conventions, and append or
override the resource value in telemetry data with this information.
Supported detectors
Environment Variable
Reads resource information from the OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
environment
variable. This is expected to be in the format <key1>=<value1>,<key2>=<value2>,...
, the
details of which are currently pending confirmation in the OpenTelemetry specification.
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/env:
detectors: [env]
timeout: 2s
override: false
Note: use the Docker detector (see below) if running the Collector as a Docker container.
Queries the host machine to retrieve the following resource attributes:
* host.name
* host.id
* os.type
By default host.name
is being set to FQDN if possible, and a hostname provided by OS used as fallback.
This logic can be changed with hostname_sources
configuration which is set to ["dns", "os"]
by default.
Use the following config to avoid getting FQDN and apply hostname provided by OS only:
processors:
resourcedetection/system:
detectors: ["system"]
system:
hostname_sources: ["os"]
- all valid options for
hostname_sources
:
- "dns"
- "os"
- "cname"
- "lookup"
Hostname Sources
dns
The "dns" hostname source uses multiple sources to get the fully qualified domain name. First, it looks up the
host name in the local machine's hosts
file. If that fails, it looks up the CNAME. Lastly, if that fails,
it does a reverse DNS query. Note: this hostname source may produce unreliable results on Windows. To produce
a FQDN, Windows hosts might have better results using the "lookup" hostname source, which is mentioned below.
os
The "os" hostname source provides the hostname provided by the local machine's kernel.
cname
The "cname" hostname source provides the canonical name, as provided by net.LookupCNAME in the Go standard library.
Note: this hostname source may produce unreliable results on Windows.
lookup
The "lookup" hostname source does a reverse DNS lookup of the current host's IP address.
Queries the Docker daemon to retrieve the following resource attributes from the host machine:
* host.name
* os.type
You need to mount the Docker socket (/var/run/docker.sock
on Linux) to contact the Docker daemon.
Docker detection does not work on macOS.
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/docker:
detectors: [env, docker]
timeout: 2s
override: false
When Heroku dyno metadata is active, Heroku applications publish information through environment variables.
We map these environment variables to resource attributes as follows:
Dyno metadata environment variable |
Resource attribute |
HEROKU_APP_ID |
heroku.app.id |
HEROKU_APP_NAME |
service.name |
HEROKU_DYNO_ID |
service.instance.id |
HEROKU_RELEASE_CREATED_AT |
heroku.release.creation_timestamp |
HEROKU_RELEASE_VERSION |
service.version |
HEROKU_SLUG_COMMIT |
heroku.release.commit |
For more information, see the Heroku cloud provider documentation under the OpenTelemetry specification semantic conventions.
processors:
resourcedetection/heroku:
detectors: [env, heroku]
timeout: 2s
override: false
Uses the Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go
to read resource information from the metadata server and environment variables to detect which GCP platform the
application is running on, and detect the appropriate attributes for that platform. Regardless
of the GCP platform the application is running on, use the gcp detector:
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/gcp:
detectors: [env, gcp]
timeout: 2s
override: false
* cloud.provider ("gcp")
* cloud.platform ("gcp_compute_engine")
* cloud.account.id (project id)
* cloud.region (e.g. us-central1)
* cloud.availability_zone (e.g. us-central1-c)
* host.id (instance id)
* host.name (instance name)
* host.type (machine type)
* cloud.provider ("gcp")
* cloud.platform ("gcp_kubernetes_engine")
* cloud.account.id (project id)
* cloud.region (only for regional GKE clusters; e.g. "us-central1")
* cloud.availability_zone (only for zonal GKE clusters; e.g. "us-central1-c")
* k8s.cluster.name
* host.id (instance id)
* host.name (instance name; only when workload identity is disabled)
* cloud.provider ("gcp")
* cloud.platform ("gcp_cloud_run")
* cloud.account.id (project id)
* cloud.region (e.g. "us-central1")
* faas.id (instance id)
* faas.name (service name)
* faas.version (service revision)
* cloud.provider ("gcp")
* cloud.platform ("gcp_cloud_functions")
* cloud.account.id (project id)
* cloud.region (e.g. "us-central1")
* faas.id (instance id)
* faas.name (function name)
* faas.version (function version)
* cloud.provider ("gcp")
* cloud.platform ("gcp_app_engine")
* cloud.account.id (project id)
* cloud.region (e.g. "us-central1")
* cloud.availability_zone (e.g. "us-central1-c")
* faas.id (instance id)
* faas.name (service name)
* faas.version (service version)
AWS EC2
Uses AWS SDK for Go to read resource information from the EC2 instance metadata API to retrieve the following resource attributes:
* cloud.provider ("aws")
* cloud.platform ("aws_ec2")
* cloud.account.id
* cloud.region
* cloud.availability_zone
* host.id
* host.image.id
* host.name
* host.type
It also can optionally gather tags for the EC2 instance that the collector is running on.
Note that in order to fetch EC2 tags, the IAM role assigned to the EC2 instance must have a policy that includes the ec2:DescribeTags
permission.
EC2 custom configuration example:
processors:
resourcedetection/ec2:
detectors: ["ec2"]
ec2:
# A list of regex's to match tag keys to add as resource attributes can be specified
tags:
- ^tag1$
- ^tag2$
- ^label.*$
If you are using a proxy server on your EC2 instance, it's important that you exempt requests for instance metadata as described in the AWS cli user guide. Failing to do so can result in proxied or missing instance data.
Amazon ECS
Queries the Task Metadata Endpoint (TMDE) to record information about the current ECS Task. Only TMDE V4 and V3 are supported.
* cloud.provider ("aws")
* cloud.platform ("aws_ecs")
* cloud.account.id
* cloud.region
* cloud.availability_zone
* aws.ecs.cluster.arn
* aws.ecs.task.arn
* aws.ecs.task.family
* aws.ecs.task.revision
* aws.ecs.launchtype (V4 only)
* aws.log.group.names (V4 only)
* aws.log.group.arns (V4 only)
* aws.log.stream.names (V4 only)
* aws.log.stream.arns (V4 only)
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/ecs:
detectors: [env, ecs]
timeout: 2s
override: false
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Reads the AWS X-Ray configuration file available on all Beanstalk instances with X-Ray Enabled.
* cloud.provider ("aws")
* cloud.platform ("aws_elastic_beanstalk")
* deployment.environment
* service.instance.id
* service.version
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/elastic_beanstalk:
detectors: [env, elastic_beanstalk]
timeout: 2s
override: false
Amazon EKS
* cloud.provider ("aws")
* cloud.platform ("aws_eks")
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/eks:
detectors: [env, eks]
timeout: 2s
override: false
AWS Lambda
Uses the AWS Lambda runtime environment variables
to retrieve the following resource attributes:
Cloud semantic conventions
cloud.provider
("aws"
)
cloud.platform
("aws_lambda"
)
cloud.region
($AWS_REGION
)
Function as a Service semantic conventions
and AWS Lambda semantic conventions
faas.name
($AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME
)
faas.version
($AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION
)
faas.instance
($AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME
)
faas.max_memory
($AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_MEMORY_SIZE
)
AWS Logs semantic conventions
aws.log.group.names
($AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME
)
aws.log.stream.names
($AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME
)
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/lambda:
detectors: [env, lambda]
timeout: 0.2s
override: false
Azure
Queries the Azure Instance Metadata Service to retrieve the following resource attributes:
* cloud.provider ("azure")
* cloud.platform ("azure_vm")
* cloud.region
* cloud.account.id (subscription ID)
* host.id (virtual machine ID)
* host.name
* azure.vm.name (same as host.name)
* azure.vm.size (virtual machine size)
* azure.vm.scaleset.name (name of the scale set if any)
* azure.resourcegroup.name (resource group name)
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/azure:
detectors: [env, azure]
timeout: 2s
override: false
Azure AKS
- cloud.provider ("azure")
- cloud.platform ("azure_aks")
processors:
resourcedetection/aks:
detectors: [env, aks]
timeout: 2s
override: false
Consul
Queries a consul agent and reads its' configuration endpoint to retrieve the following resource attributes:
- cloud.region (consul datacenter)
- host.id (consul node id)
- host.name (consul node name)
- exploded consul metadata - reads all key:value pairs in consul metadata into label:labelvalue pairs.
processors:
resourcedetection/consul:
detectors: [env, consul]
timeout: 2s
override: false
Heroku
** You must first enable the Heroku metadata feature on the application **
Queries Heroku metadata to retrieve the following resource attributes:
- heroku.release.version (identifier for the current release)
- heroku.release.creation_timestamp (time and date the release was created)
- heroku.release.commit (commit hash for the current release)
- heroku.app.name (application name)
- heroku.app.id (unique identifier for the application)
- heroku.dyno.id (dyno identifier. Used as host name)
processors:
resourcedetection/heroku:
detectors: [env, heroku]
timeout: 2s
override: false
Openshift
Queries the OpenShift and Kubernetes API to retrieve the following resource attributes:
* cloud.provider
* cloud.platform
* cloud.region
* k8s.cluster.name
By default, the API address is determined from the environment variables KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST
, KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT
and the service token is read from /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
.
If TLS is not explicit disabled and no ca_file
is configured /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
is used.
The determination of the API address, ca_file and the service token is skipped if they are set in the configuration.
Example:
processors:
resourcedetection/openshift:
detectors: [openshift]
timeout: 2s
override: false
openshift: # optional
address: "https://api.example.com"
token: "token"
tls:
insecure: false
ca_file: "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt"
See: TLS Configuration Settings for the full set of available options.
Configuration
# a list of resource detectors to run, valid options are: "env", "system", "gce", "gke", "ec2", "ecs", "elastic_beanstalk", "eks", "lambda", "azure", "heroku", "openshift"
detectors: [ <string> ]
# determines if existing resource attributes should be overridden or preserved, defaults to true
override: <bool>
# When included, only attributes in the list will be appened. Applies to all detectors.
attributes: [ <string> ]
Ordering
Note that if multiple detectors are inserting the same attribute name, the first detector to insert wins. For example if you had detectors: [eks, ec2]
then cloud.platform
will be aws_eks
instead of ec2
. The below ordering is recommended.
GCP
AWS
- lambda
- elastic_beanstalk
- eks
- ecs
- ec2
The full list of settings exposed for this extension are documented here
with detailed sample configurations here.