AWS Proxy
The AWS proxy accepts requests without any authentication of AWS signatures applied and forwards them to the
AWS API, applying authentication and signing. This allows applications to avoid needing AWS credentials to access
a service, instead configuring the AWS exporter and/or proxy in the OpenTelemetry collector and only providing the
collector with credentials.
Configuration
Example:
extensions:
awsproxy:
endpoint: 0.0.0.0:2000
proxy_address: ""
tls:
insecure: false
server_name_override: ""
region: ""
role_arn: ""
aws_endpoint: ""
local_mode: false
service_name: "xray"
endpoint (Optional)
The TCP address and port on which this proxy listens for requests.
Default: localhost:2000
You can temporarily disable the component.UseLocalHostAsDefaultHost
feature gate to change this to 0.0.0.0:2000
. This feature gate will be removed in a future release.
proxy_address (Optional)
Defines the proxy address that this extension forwards HTTP requests to the AWS backend through. If left unconfigured, requests will be sent directly.
This will generally be set to a NAT gateway when the collector is running on a network without public internet.
insecure (Optional)
Enables or disables TLS certificate verification when this proxy forwards HTTP requests to the AWS backend. This sets the InsecureSkipVerify
in the TLSConfig. When setting to true, TLS is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks so it should be used only for testing.
Default: false
server_name_override (Optional)
This sets the ``ServerName` in the TLSConfig.
region (Optional)
The AWS region this proxy forwards requests to. When missing, we will try to retrieve this value through environment variables or optionally ECS/EC2 metadata endpoint (depends on local_mode
below).
role_arn (Optional)
The IAM role used by this proxy when communicating with the AWS service. If non-empty, the receiver will attempt to call STS to retrieve temporary credentials, otherwise the standard AWS credential lookup will be performed.
aws_endpoint (Optional)
The AWS service endpoint which this proxy forwards requests to. If not set, will default to the AWS X-Ray endpoint.
service_name (Optional)
The AWS service name which this proxy forwards requests to. If not set, will default to "xray"