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netsampler / goflow2

High performance sFlow/IPFIX/NetFlow Collector
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Discussion - Using this project as a basis for an Otel Receiver #310

Closed dlopes7 closed 6 months ago

dlopes7 commented 7 months ago

Hello @lspgn

Sorry about opening an issue for this, it is more of a discussion.

I would be interested to hear your thoughts about using this collector as a basis for an Opentelemetry Receiver.

Have you ever considered something like that? We are interested in writing a Netflow/Sflow/etc receiver and you obviously already have the performance and collection capabilities in this project.

It would be based around logs, treating the sample as a log entry (since it doesn't fit the contract for a span or metrics)

Eventually contributing it to the list of receivers in otel

Interested in knowing your thoughts around this

lspgn commented 7 months ago

Hi @dlopes7, This is a great idea, thank you. I've noticed that GoFlow2 is already used by datadog-agent and telegraf. I'm seeing Golang OTEL libraries for logs are still in development: would it be viable? Could the custom mapping be passed through an OTEL configuration? I personally would not have enough time to build such thing though.

dlopes7 commented 6 months ago

Thanks, I don't expect you to build this, but it sounds feasible to use this project or parts of it as a otel receiver

Logs are indeed in alpha, but there are so many log receivers and exporters, I think it is worth it to implement as it matures.

I will do some more research and try to contribute, will tag you eventually if you are interested in taking a look!