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This feature is available as an add-on for the Honeycomb Enterprise plan. Please contact your Honeycomb account team for details.

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Description

This Custom source can be used to directly configure an OpenTelemetry Receiver. The Custom source is useful for testing new receivers or for fulfilling a use case that is not supported by Telemetry Pipeline natively.
The Custom Source can only be used with components that are present in the Telemetry Pipeline Agent. See the Included Components documentation for a list of supported components.

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Supported Platforms

PlatformMetricsLogsTraces
Linux✓✓✓
Windows✓✓✓
macOS✓✓✓
Kubernetes Node (DaemonSet)✓✓✓
Kubernetes Deployment✓✓✓
Kubernetes Gateway✓✓✓
OpenShift 4 Node (DaemonSet)✓✓✓
OpenShift 4 Deployment✓✓✓
The supported platforms and types will be limited to those allowed by the specific receiver used in the configuration.

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Configuration

FieldDescription
Telemetry TypesThe kind of telemetry that will be gathered by the receiver. Can be any combination of metrics, logs, and traces.
ConfigurationThe YAML configuration for the receiver.

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Example Configuration

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SQL Server Receiver

The SQL Server Receiver is already configurable via the Microsoft SQL Server source, but the custom source can be used to access configuration options that are not exposed in Telemetry Pipeline.

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Web Interface

Honeycomb Docs - Custom Source - image 1

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Standalone Source

apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
kind: Source
metadata:
  id: custom
  name: custom
spec:
  type: custom
  parameters:
    - name: telemetry_types
      value:
        - Logs
        - Metrics
        - Traces
    - name: configuration
      value: |-
        sqlserver:
          collection_interval: 10s
          computer_name: CustomServer
          instance_name: CustomInstance
          resource_attributes:
            sqlserver.computer.name:
              enabled: true
            sqlserver.instance.name:
              enabled: true