sumologic-otel-collector

Sumo Logic OpenTelemetry Collector exercise

Download Sumo Logic OpenTelemetry Collector

• For this exercise we need a Sumo Logic distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector - we'll reffer to is as otelcol-sumo

• Download otelcol-sumo binary from the releases page, rename is as otelcol-sumo and add it to your PATH environment variable

  For example here are commands you can run on Linux machine using the amd64 processor:

  mkdir ~/otelcol-sumo
  
  cd ~/otelcol-sumo
  
  wget https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-otel-collector/releases/download/v0.51.0-sumo-0/otelcol-sumo-0.51.0-sumo-0-linux_amd64
  
  mv otelcol-sumo-0.51.0-sumo-0-linux_amd64 otelcol-sumo
  
  chmod +x otelcol-sumo
  
  export PATH="$PATH":~/otelcol-sumo

• Set the SUMOLOGIC_TOKEN environment variable - you should already have a token from the prerequisites step

  export SUMOLOGIC_TOKEN=your-sumologic-token

• Run the otelcol-sumo using prepared config file

  otelcol-sumo --config config.yaml

  By default it creates a collector in the Sumo Backend and forwards there content of the logs.txt file - you should see is in the otelcol-sumo output:

  2022-05-29T18:27:18.673+0200	info	builder/exporters_builder.go:48	Exporter started.	{"kind": "exporter", "name": "sumologic"}
  ...
  
  2022-05-29T18:27:18.878+0200	info	file/file.go:174	Started watching file	{"kind": "receiver", "name": "filelog", "operator_id": "file_input", "operator_type": "file_input", "path": "logs.txt"}
  2022-05-29T18:27:19.208+0200	INFO	loggingexporter/logging_exporter.go:71	LogsExporter	{"#logs": 3}
  

• Go to Sumo Logic > New > Log Search and see if your logs are visible; you might need to wait a couple of seconds for them to appear