Using Splunk OTel Collector with Bindplane

Bindplane and the Bindplane Collector can be used to collect data from your Splunk OTel Collectors. This allows you to start taking advantage of Bindplane without the need to re-instrument your collectors at the edge.

Step 1: Deploy a Bindplane Collector as a Gateway

This is the collector you will be routing data through and is what will be managed by Bindplane. In a production environment, this is likely to be a fleet of collectors behind a load balancer. See our Collector Sizing and Scaling docs for more details on determining your collector architecture.

Step 2: Build the Configuration

1. Create a new configuration

2. Add the OTLP Source.

3. Add a destination of your choice and configure it.

Step 3: Configure your Splunk OTel Collectors to forward to Bindplane Collector

Modify your Splunk OTel Collector configuration to use an otlp exporter. The exporter has many configuration options, see the readme for details.

Below is a minimalist configuration example. Replace bindplane-gateway with the hostname or IP address of your Bindplane Collector.

exporters:
  otlp:
    endpoint: bindplane-gateway:4317

Update your pipelines to include the new exporter. This example assumes you have a traces, metrics, and logs pipeline. Your configuration may differ.

service:
  pipelines:
    traces:
      exporters:
        - otlp
    metrics:
      exporters:
        - otlp
    logs:
      exporters:
        - otlp