github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/observer/ecstaskobserver

ECS Task Observer

Status
Stability	unmaintained
Distributions	contrib
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Emeritus	@rmfitzpatrick

The ecs_task_observer is a Receiver Creator-compatible "watch observer" that will detect and report container endpoints for the running ECS task of which your Collector instance is a member. It is designed for and only supports "sidecar" deployments to detect co-located containers. For cluster wide use cases you should use the ECS Observer with a corresponding Prometheus receiver.

The Observer works by querying the available task metadata endpoint and making all detected running containers available as endpoints for Receiver Creator usage. Because container metadata don't include any port mapping information, you must include service-specific port dockerLabels in your task definition container entries. A docker label of ECS_TASK_OBSERVER_PORT with a valid port value will be attempted to be parsed for each reported container by default.

An instance of the Collector must be running in the ECS task from which you want to detect containers.

:construction: This extension is in alpha and configuration fields are subject to change.

Example Config

extensions:
  ecs_task_observer:
    # the task metadata endpoint. If not set, detected by first of ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4 and ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI
    # environment variables by default.
    endpoint: http://my.task.metadata.endpoint
    # the dockerLabels to use to try to extract target application ports. If not set "ECS_TASK_OBSERVER_PORT" will be used by default.
    port_labels: [A_DOCKER_LABEL_CONTAINING_DESIRED_PORT, ANOTHER_DOCKER_LABEL_CONTAINING_DESIRED_PORT]
    refresh_interval: 10s

receivers:
  receiver_creator:
    receivers:
      redis:
        rule: type == "container" && name matches "redis"
        config:
          password: `container.labels["SECRET"]`
    watch_observers: [ecs_task_observer]

The above config defines a custom task metadata endpoint and provides two port labels that will be used to set the resulting container endpoint's port. A corresponding redis container definition could look like the following:

{
  "containerDefinitions": [
    {
      "portMappings": [
        {
          "containerPort": 6379,
          "hostPort": 6379
        }
      ],
      "image": "redis",
      "dockerLabels": {
        "A_DOCKER_LABEL_CONTAINING_DESIRED_PORT": "6379",
        "SECRET": "my-redis-auth"
      },
      "name": "redis"
    }
  ]
}

Config

As a rest client-utilizing extension, most of the ECS Task Observer's configuration is inherited from the Collector core HTTP Client Configuration Settings.

All fields are optional.

Name	Type	Default	Docs
endpoint	string		The task metadata endpoint, detected from first of ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4 and ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI environment variables by default
tls	configtls-TLSClientSetting		TLSSetting struct exposes TLS client configuration.
read_buffer_size	int		ReadBufferSize for HTTP client. See http.Transport.ReadBufferSize.
write_buffer_size	int		WriteBufferSize for HTTP client. See http.Transport.WriteBufferSize.
timeout	time-Duration		Timeout parameter configures http.Client.Timeout.
headers	map[string]string		Additional headers attached to each HTTP request sent by the client. Existing header values are overwritten if collision happens.
auth	Authentication		Auth configuration for outgoing HTTP calls.
refresh_interval	time-Duration	30s	RefreshInterval determines the frequency at which the observer needs to poll for collecting new information about task containers.
port_labels	[]string	[ECS_TASK_OBSERVER_PORT]	PortLabels is a list of container Docker labels from which to obtain the observed Endpoint port. The first label with valid port found will be used. If no PortLabels provided, default of ECS_TASK_OBSERVER_PORT will be used.

configtls-TLSClientSetting

Name	Type	Default	Docs
ca_file	string		Path to the CA cert. For a client this verifies the server certificate. For a server this verifies client certificates. If empty uses system root CA. (optional)
cert_file	string		Path to the TLS cert to use for TLS required connections. (optional)
key_file	string		Path to the TLS key to use for TLS required connections. (optional)
min_version	string		MinVersion sets the minimum TLS version that is acceptable. If not set, TLS 1.0 is used. (optional)
max_version	string		MaxVersion sets the maximum TLS version that is acceptable. If not set, TLS 1.3 is used. (optional)
insecure	bool		In gRPC when set to true, this is used to disable the client transport security. See https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/grpc#WithInsecure. In HTTP, this disables verifying the server's certificate chain and host name (InsecureSkipVerify in the tls Config). Please refer to https://godoc.org/crypto/tls#Config for more information. (optional, default false)
insecure_skip_verify	bool		InsecureSkipVerify will enable TLS but not verify the certificate.
server_name_override	string		ServerName requested by client for virtual hosting. This sets the ServerName in the TLSConfig. Please refer to https://godoc.org/crypto/tls#Config for more information. (optional)

time-Duration

An optionally signed sequence of decimal numbers, each with a unit suffix, such as 300ms, -1.5h, or 2h45m. Valid time units are ns, us, ms, s, m, h.