Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
[chore][exporter/loadbalancing] use headless service with DNS mode in…
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
… K8S(open-telemetry#27014) (open-telemetry#28687)

**Description:** <Describe what has changed.>
fix
open-telemetry#27014
notice when in K8S, the DNS mode should config a headless service

**Link to tracking Issue:** <Issue number if applicable>
open-telemetry#27014
  • Loading branch information
Liubey authored and RoryCrispin committed Nov 24, 2023
1 parent 1a4171f commit f387b29
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 1 deletion.
5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion exporter/loadbalancingexporter/README.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The options for `routing_key` are: `service`, `traceID`, `metric` (metric name),

If no `routing_key` is configured, the default routing mechanism is `traceID` for traces, while `service` is the default for metrics. This means that spans belonging to the same `traceID` (or `service.name`, when `service` is used as the `routing_key`) will be sent to the same backend.

It requires a source of backend information to be provided: static, with a fixed list of backends, or DNS, with a hostname that will resolve to all IP addresses to use. The DNS resolver will periodically check for updates.
It requires a source of backend information to be provided: static, with a fixed list of backends, or DNS, with a hostname that will resolve to all IP addresses to use (such as a Kubernetes headless service). The DNS resolver will periodically check for updates.

Note that either the Trace ID or Service name is used for the decision on which backend to use: the actual backend load isn't taken into consideration. Even though this load-balancer won't do round-robin balancing of the batches, the load distribution should be very similar among backends with a standard deviation under 5% at the current configuration.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ exporters:
- backend-2:4317
- backend-3:4317
- backend-4:4317
# Notice to config a headless service DNS in Kubernetes
# dns:
# hostname: otelcol-headless.observability.svc.cluster.local

service:
pipelines:
Expand Down

0 comments on commit f387b29

Please sign in to comment.