hostmetricsreceiver.md

Host Metrics Receiver

The Host Metrics receiver generates metrics about the host system scraped from various sources. This is intended to be used when the collector is deployed as an agent.

Supported pipeline types: metrics

Docs

• Plugins used

  • https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver

• Dockers used

  • https://hub.docker.com/r/otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
  • https://hub.docker.com/_/influxdb
  • https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana

Getting started

The collection interval and the categories of metrics to be scraped can be configured:

hostmetrics:
  collection_interval: <duration> # default = 1m
  scrapers:
    <scraper1>:
    <scraper2>:
    ...

The available scrapers are:

Scraper	Supported OSs	Description
cpu	All except Mac	CPU utilization metrics
disk	All except Mac	Disk I/O metrics
load	All	CPU load metrics
filesystem	All	File System utilization metrics
memory	All	Memory utilization metrics
network	All	Network interface I/O metrics & TCP connection metrics
paging	All	Paging/Swap space utilization and I/O metrics
processes	Linux	Process count metrics
process	Linux & Windows	Per process CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O metrics