Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Agent

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Note

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

Description

Monitor the logs of the Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline agent the config is applied to.

Supported Platforms

HTP Agent: v1.40.0+

Platform	Metrics	Logs	Traces
Linux		✓
Windows		✓
macOS		✓

Configuration

Field	Description
Agent Log Path	The absolute path to the bindplane-agent log. Default is `$OIQ_OTEL_COLLECTOR_HOME/log/collector.log`.
Enable File Offset Storage	When enabled, the current position into a file will be saved to disk, and reading will resume from where it left off after a collector restart.
Offset Storage Directory	The directory that the offset storage file will be created. Default is `$OIQ_OTEL_COLLECTOR_HOME/storage`.
Start At	Where in the log file to begin reading logs from. Can be `beginning` or `end`.

Example Configuration

Basic Configuration

For basic configuration, the defaults are used.

Web Interface

Honeycomb Docs - HTP Agent Source - image 1

Standalone Source

apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
kind: Source
metadata:
  id: bindplane-agent
  name: bindplane-agent
spec:
  type: bindplane-agent
  parameters:
    - name: log_path
      value: '$OIQ_OTEL_COLLECTOR_HOME/log/collector.log'
    - name: enable_offset_storage
      value: true
    - name: offset_storage_dir
      value: '$OIQ_OTEL_COLLECTOR_HOME/storage'
    - name: start_at
      value: 'end'

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