cloudfoundryreceiver

Cloud Foundry Receiver

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The Cloud Foundry receiver connects to the RLP (Reverse Log Proxy) Gateway of the Cloud Foundry installation, typically available at the URL https://log-stream.<cf-system-domain>.

Authentication

RLP Gateway authentication is performed by adding the Oauth2 token as the Authorization header. To obtain an OAuth2 token to use for the RLP Gateway, a request is made to the UAA component which acts as the OAuth2 provider (URL specified by uaa_url configuration option, which typically is https://uaa.<cf-system-domain>). To authenticate with UAA, username and password/secret combination is used (uaa_username and uaa_password configuration options). This UAA user must have the client_credentials and refresh_token authorized grant types, and logs.admin authority.

The following is an example sequence of commands to create the UAA user using the uaac command line utility:

• uaac target https://uaa.<cf-system-domain>
• uaac token client get identity -s <identity-user-secret>
• uaac client add <uaa_username> --name opentelemetry --secret <uaa_password> --authorized_grant_types client_credentials,refresh_token --authorities logs.admin

The <uaa_username> and <uaa_password> above can be set to anything as long as they match the values provided to the receiver configuration. The admin account (which is identity here) which has the permissions to create new clients may have a different name on different setups. The value of --name is not used for receiver configuration.

Configuration

The receiver takes the following configuration options:

Field	Default	Description
rlp_gateway.endpoint	required	URL of the RLP gateway, typically https://log-stream.<cf-system-domain>
rlp_gateway.tls.insecure_skip_verify	false	whether to skip TLS verify for the RLP gateway endpoint
rlp_gateway.shard_id	opentelemetry	metrics are load balanced among receivers that use the same shard ID, therefore this must only be set if there are multiple receivers which must both receive all the metrics instead of them being balanced between them
uaa.endpoint	required	URL of the UAA provider, typically https://uaa.<cf-system-domain>
uaa.tls.insecure_skip_verify	false	whether to skip TLS verify for the UAA endpoint
uaa.username	required	name of the UAA user (required grant types/authorities described above)
uaa.password	required	password of the UAA user

The rlp_gateway configuration section also inherits configuration options from the global from:

• HTTP Client Configuration

Example:

receivers:
  cloudfoundry:
    rlp_gateway:
      endpoint: "https://log-stream.sys.example.internal"
      tls:
        insecure_skip_verify: false
      shard_id: "opentelemetry"
    uaa:
      endpoint: "https://uaa.sys.example.internal"
      tls:
        insecure_skip_verify: false
      username: "otelclient"
      password: "changeit"

The full list of settings exposed for this receiver are documented here with detailed sample configurations here.

Metrics

Reported metrics are grouped under an instrumentation library named otelcol/cloudfoundry. Metric names are as specified by Cloud Foundry metrics documentation, but the origin name is prepended to the metric name with . separator. All metrics either of type Gauge or Sum.

Attributes

All the metrics have the following attributes:

• origin - origin name as documented by Cloud Foundry
• source - for applications, the GUID of the application, otherwise equal to origin

For Cloud Foundry/Tanzu Application Service deployed in BOSH, the following attributes are also present, using their canonical BOSH meanings:

• deployment - BOSH deployment name
• index - BOSH instance ID (GUID)
• ip - BOSH instance IP
• job - BOSH job name

For metrics originating with rep origin name (specific to applications), the following metrics are present:

• instance_id - numerical index of the application instance. However, also present for bbs origin, where it matches the value of index
• process_id - process ID (GUID). For a process of type "web" which is the main process of an application, this is equal to source_id and app_id
• process_instance_id - unique ID of a process instance, should be treated as an opaque string
• process_type - process type. Each application has exactly one process of type web, but many have any number of other processes

On TAS/PCF versions 2.8.0+ and cf-deployment versions v11.1.0+, the following additional attributes are present for application metrics: app_id, app_name, space_id, space_name, organization_id, organization_name which provide the GUID and name of application, space and organization respectively.

This might not be a comprehensive list of attributes, as the receiver passes on whatever attributes the gateway provides, which may include some that are specific to TAS and possibly new ones in future Cloud Foundry versions as well.