opentelemetry

Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector limitations

The Elastic Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector has the following limitations:

• Because of an upstream limitation, host.network.* metrics aren’t present from the OpenTelemetry side.
• process.state isn’t present in the OpenTelemetry host metric. It’s set to a dummy value of Unknown in the State column of the host processes table.
• The Elasticsearch exporter handles the resource attributes, but Host OS version and Operating system may show as “N/A”.
• The CPU scraper needs to be enabled to collect the systm.load.cores metric, which affects the Normalized Load column in the Hosts table and the Normalized Load visualization on the host detailed view.
• The hostmetrics receiver doesn’t support CPU and disk metrics on MacOS. These values will stay empty for collectors running on MacOS.
• The console shows error Log messages when the hostmetrics receiver can’t access some of the process information due to permission issues.
• The console shows mapping errors initially until mapping occurs.