Enabling OTEL Agent¶

Introduction¶

The OTEL Agent (DaemonSet) runs on every node to collect and forward cluster logs to Loki.

By default, the OTEL Agent is enabled when Loki is enabled. If you want to enable the OTEL Agent without enabling Loki, follow the steps below.

SSH into the instance where Privacera Manager is installed.

Navigate to the config directory using the following command:

Bash
1	`cd ~/privacera/privacera-manager/config/`

Copy the vars.monitoring.yml file from the sample-vars folder to the custom-vars folder:

Note

If the file already exists in custom-vars, you can skip this step.

Bash
1	`cp sample-vars/vars.monitoring.yml custom-vars/`

Open the vars.monitoring.yml file for editing:

Bash
1	`vi custom-vars/vars.monitoring.yml`

Uncomment the following variable in the file and save it:

YAML
OTEL_AGENT_DEPLOYMENT_ENABLED: "true"

Once the configuration is complete, redeploy the monitoring components.

a. Go to privacera-manager directory.

Bash
1	`cd ~/privacera/privacera-manager`

b. Run setup to generate the required files.

Bash
1	`./privacera-manager.sh setup`

c. Install the monitoring components.

Bash
1	`./pm_with_helm.sh install-monitoring`

d. Run install to update the Grafana.

Bash
1	`./pm_with_helm.sh install`

e. Once done, run post-install.

Bash
1	`./privacera-manager.sh post-install`

To verify that the OTEL Agent is running:

Bash
kubectl get daemonset -n privacera-monitoring
kubectl get pods -n privacera-monitoring

Look for pods with names containing otel-agent and ensure they show Running status.