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OTEL Traces

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Configuration

Setting Env var Default value Description
otlp.traces.endpoint OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT OTLP endpoint in the form of http://{domain or ip}:4318/v1/traces
otlp.traces.protocol OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL http (from SDK) OTLP Protocol
otlp.traces.timeout OTLP_TRACES_TIMEOUT 10000 (from SDK) Timeout value in milliseconds
otlp.traces.headers OTLP_TRACES_HEADERS List of headers to apply to all outgoing traces in the form of "some-key=some-value,other-key=other-value"
otlp.traces.synced OTLP_TRACES_SYNCED false Set to true if you want traces to be sent synchronously
otlp.traces.minimumpriority OTLP_TRACES_MINIMUMPRIORITY "" (=debug) minimum priority of event for using this output, order is emergency,alert,critical,error,warning,notice,informational,debug or ""
otlp.traces.checkcert OTLP_TRACES_CHECKCERT false Set if you want to skip TLS certificate validation
otlp.traces.duration OTLP_TRACES_DURATION 1000 Artificial span duration in milliseconds (as Falco doesn't provide an ending timestamp)
otlp.traces.extraenvvars OTLP_TRACES_EXTRAENVVARS Extra env vars (override the other settings)

Note

For the extra Env Vars values see standard OTEL_* environment variables:

Example of config.yaml

otlp:
  traces:
    # endpoint: "" # OTLP endpoint in the form of http://{domain or ip}:4318/v1/traces
    # protocol: "" # OTLP protocol http/json, http/protobuf, grpc (default: "" which uses SDK default: http/json)
    # timeout: "" # OTLP timeout: timeout value in milliseconds (default: "" which uses SDK default: 10000)
    # headers: "" # OTLP headers: list of headers to apply to all outgoing traces in the form of "some-key=some-value,other-key=other-value" (default: "")
    # synced: false # Set to true if you want traces to be sent synchronously (default: false)
    # duration: 1000 # Artificial span duration in milliseconds (default: 1000)
    # extraenvvars: # Extra env vars (override the other settings)
      # OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_TIMEOUT: 10000
      # OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TIMEOUT: 10000
    # minimumpriority: "" # minimum priority of event for using this output, order is emergency|alert|critical|error|warning|notice|informational|debug or "" (default)
    # checkcert: true # Set if you want to skip TLS certificate validation (default: true)

Additional info

Note

The OTLP Traces are only available for the source: syscalls.

Running a whole stack with docker-compose

Below docker-compose file runs a stack of:

  • falco
  • falcosidekick
  • events-generator to generate arbitrary falco events
  • Tempo as OTLP traces backend
  • Grafana for visualization

Requirements

A local Linux kernel capable of running falco--modern-bpf`, see https://falco.org/blog/falco-modern-bpf/.

Configuration files

You need to create these files:

  • ./docker-compose.yaml: minimal docker-compose configuration
---
version: "3.9"
services:
  falco:
    image: falcosecurity/falco-no-driver:latest
    privileged: true
    command: "falco --modern-bpf -r /etc/falco/rules"
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/host/var/run/docker.sock
      - /dev:/host/dev
      - /proc:/host/proc:ro
      - /boot:/host/boot:ro
      - /lib/modules:/host/lib/modules:ro
      - ./etc/falco:/etc/falco:ro

  falcosidekick:
    # Build from locally cloned repository
    build: ../../../
    volumes:
      - ./etc/falco:/etc/falco:ro
    command: -c /etc/falco/falcosidekick.yaml
    ports:
      - 2801:2801
    environment:
      - OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT=http://traces-backend:4318/v1/traces
      - OTLP_HEADERS=X-Scope-OrgID=1
      - OTLP_TRACES_SYNCED=true
  traces-backend:
    image: grafana/tempo:latest
    ports:
      - 4317
      - 4318
      - 3200
    volumes:
      - ./etc/tempo:/etc/tempo:ro
    command: "-config.file /etc/tempo/config.yaml"
    restart: always

  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana:10.0.3
    volumes:
      - ./etc/grafana/provisioning:/etc/grafana/provisioning:ro
    environment:
      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED=true
      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ORG_ROLE=Admin
      - GF_AUTH_DISABLE_LOGIN_FORM=true
      - GF_FEATURE_TOGGLES_ENABLE=traceqlEditor
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
  event-generator:
    image: falcosecurity/event-generator
    command: run
    restart: always
  trigger:
    image: alpine
    command: ["sh", "-c", "while true; do cat /etc/shadow > /dev/null; sleep 5; done"]
  • ./etc/falco/falco.yaml: minimal falco configuration
---
debug: true
outputs:
  rate: 1
  max_burst: 1000
json_output: true
http_output:
  enabled: true
  url: http://falcosidekick:2801
  #url: http://172.17.0.1:2801
  user_agent: "falcosecurity/falco"
  # Tell Falco to not verify the remote server.
  insecure: true

plugins:
  - name: json
    library_path: libjson.so

stdout_output:
  enabled: true
log_stderr: true

syscall_buf_size_preset: 4
mkdir -p ./etc/falco/upstream-rules
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/falcosecurity/rules/ ./etc/falco/upstream-rules
ln -s upstream-rules/rules ./etc/falco/rules
  • ./etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yaml: provisioning Tempo backend as Grafana datasource
apiVersion: 1

datasources:
- name: Tempo
  type: tempo
  access: proxy
  orgId: 1
  url: http://traces-backend:3200
  basicAuth: false
  isDefault: true
  version: 1
  editable: false
  apiVersion: 1
  uid: tempo
  jsonData:
    httpMethod: GET
    serviceMap:
      datasourceUid: prometheus
  • ./etc/tempo/config.yaml: minimal tempo configuration
---
server:
  http_listen_port: 3200

distributor:
  receivers:
    otlp:
      protocols:
        http:
        grpc:
  log_received_spans:
    enabled: true

storage:
  trace:
    backend: local
    local:
      path: /tmp/tempo/blocks

Run it

To bring up the stack, and peek at how Grafana shows it:

  1. Bring up the stack
docker-compose up

  1. Navigate to http://localhost:3000/ to start browsing the local Grafana UI

  2. Navigate to /explore, choose Tempo datasource, and query {}, or just click here for such already crafted query. Grafana explore

  3. Click on any of the shown traces on the left panel, you should see something similar to the below attached screenshot. Falco traces view

  4. Bring down the stack

docker-compose down