README.md

SignalFx Receiver

Status
Stability	beta: metrics, logs
Distributions	contrib
Issues
Code Owners	@dmitryax

The SignalFx receiver accepts:

• Metrics in the SignalFx proto format.
• Events (Logs) in the SignalFx proto format. More information about sending custom events can be found in the SignalFx Developers Guide.

Configuration

The following settings are required:

• endpoint (default = 0.0.0.0:9943): Address and port that the SignalFx receiver should bind to. The component.UseLocalHostAsDefaultHost feature gate changes this to localhost:9943. This will become the default in a future release.

The following settings are optional:

• access_token_passthrough: (default = false) Whether to preserve incoming access token (X-Sf-Token header value) as "com.splunk.signalfx.access_token" metric resource attribute. Should only be used in tandem with identical configuration option for SignalFx exporter to preserve datapoint origin. Usage of any other exporter in a metric pipeline with this configuration option enabled will reveal all organization access tokens contained in this attribute.
• tls_settings (no default): This is an optional object used to specify if TLS should be used for incoming connections. Both key_file and cert_file are required to support incoming TLS connections.
  • cert_file: Specifies the certificate file to use for TLS connection.
  • key_file: Specifies the key file to use for TLS connection.

Example:

receivers:
  signalfx:
  signalfx/advanced:
    access_token_passthrough: true
    tls:
      cert_file: /test.crt
      key_file: /test.key

The full list of settings exposed for this receiver are documented here with detailed sample configurations here.

⚠️ When enabling the SignalFx receiver or exporter, configure both the metrics and logs pipelines.

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [signalfx]
      processors: [memory_limiter, batch]
      exporters: [signalfx]
    logs:
      receivers: [signalfx]
      processors: [memory_limiter, batch]
      exporters: [signalfx]