otel-config-validator

📣 This project is deprecated. For collector config validation, check out OTelBin or, as of early 2024, the collector now natively supports validating configuration using the validate command.

Experimental OpenTelemetry Collector Configuraton Validator. Work-in-progress, currently supports usage:

• In-browser (via WebAssembly), see Demo: https://lightstep.github.io/otel-config-validator/
• CLI
• Visual Studio Code Extension

Development: Quick start (WebAssembly)

    $ make

    # run local server
    $ go run cmd/server/main.go

    # open a browser to validate using an HTML form
    $ open http://127.0.0.1:8100

How it works

Runs validation on partial subset of exporters, receivers, and processors are supported for now. See components.go for full list.

In WebAssembly, some components are not supported because they cannot compile to wasm.

CLI mode

The validator can be built as a command line utility:

    # build cli
    $ go build -o otel-config-validator ./cmd/cli/main.go
    
    #run cli against otel config file
    $ ./otel-config-validator -f /path/to/config

Output:

    OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration file `test-adot.yml` is valid.


    Pipeline metrics:
      Receivers: [otlp]
      Processors: []
      Exporters: [logging]
    Pipeline traces:
      Receivers: [otlp]
      Processors: []
      Exporters: [awsxray]