Getting Started With OpenTelemetry for Logs
Logit.io provides extensive features and configurations to ingest, monitor, and analyze data, manage your infrastructure and so much more!
Follow this quickstart guide to send log data using the OpenTelemetry collector.
Pre-requisites
You'll need a Logit.io account. Sign up for a free trial here (opens in a new tab).
Step 1: Get your data into Logit.io
Your data analytics journey starts by sending your Logs, Metrics or Traces to Logit.io. For this purpose, we will be using the OpenTelemetry Collector. This choice enables you to quickly and securely ship your data. The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic way to collect, process, and export telemetry data, ensuring compatibility and flexibility across different monitoring tools and services.
Set up your data source
Logs OpenTelemetry Collector
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Login to Logit.io
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Initiate the configuration process by clicking on View Data Integrations.
Navigate to "Integrations" > "OpenTelemetry" > "Logs OpenTelemetry Collector"
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After you have installed and configured the OpenTelemetry Collector return to your dashboard https://dashboard.logit.io (opens in a new tab)
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From your dashboard choose Launch Logs.
Step 2: Verify and Search your Data
As OpenSearch Dashboards launches, which serves as the default log viewer, you will be prompted the first time to "Select your tenant." For most users, selecting the "Global" tenant is the recommended option.
You can always change the tenant later in your user settings inside of OpenSearch.
The Discover View
After selecting your tenant, you are then redirected to the Discover View that allows you to explore and search the data arriving in your stack. It provides a user-friendly interface to quickly filter and find specific logs, metrics, or other data types.
Step 3: Monitor and Troubleshoot
You can view your data with predefined searches and dashboards that facilitate monitoring and troubleshooting.
You can browse our pre-configured dashboards and choose which to install
by choosing Install Dashboards from your Logs stack.
Once you've sent your logs to Logit.io, you can gain an in-depth perspective on the health and performance of your distributed cloud services through using real-time monitoring, and custom dashboards. This allows your team to dive deep into logs for troubleshooting, while simultaneously offering a broad view of your infrastructure's status via custom dashboards and notifications.