Telemetry Pipeline plugins

Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline provides plugins that let you route telemetry data from one or more sources to one or more destinations. Plugins are customizable and offer support for logs, metrics, and traces, although not all plugins support all telemetry types.

Source plugins ingest data into your pipelines, and destination plugins send that data to the storage or analysis platform of your choice.

Add plugins to a pipeline

The source and destination plugins for each pipeline are listed in the inputs and outputs section of that pipeline's configuration file.

To add plugins to a pipeline, you can either edit a pipeline through the Telemetry Pipeline web interface, or edit the pipeline's configuration file directly. Each plugin includes a number of customizable settings, which are represented as key/value pairs within a configuration file. Many of these settings have default values.

For example, this snippet shows the default configuration settings for an OpenTelemetry source plugin:

pipeline:
  inputs:
    - Name: opentelemetry
      port: "8088"
      tag_from_uri: "false"
      buffer_chunk_size: 512K
      buffer_max_size: 4M
      successful_response_code: "201"
      tls.verify: on
      tls.debug: "1"
<...>

Descriptive names

To help keep track of your plugins, Telemetry Pipeline lets you add custom metadata to each plugin, including descriptive names. These descriptive names don't overwrite the default names assigned to each plugin. Instead, they're displayed under the plugin's default name in the Telemetry Pipeline web interface.