STEF Exporter

Status
Stability	alpha: metrics
Distributions	contrib
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Code Owners	@tigrannajaryan, @dmitryax

Export data via gRPC using Otel/STEF format format.

Getting Started

The following settings are required:

• endpoint (no default): host:port to which the exporter is going to send STEF metric data, using the STEF/gRPC protocol. The valid syntax is described here. If a scheme of https is used then client transport security is enabled and overrides the insecure setting.
• tls: see TLS Configuration Settings for the full set of available options.

Example:

exporters:
  stef:
    endpoint: otelcol2:4317
    tls:
      cert_file: file.cert
      key_file: file.key
  stef/2:
    endpoint: otelcol2:4317
    tls:
      insecure: true

By default, no compression is enabled. The only supported compression method is zstd. To enable, configure as follows:

exporters:
  otlp:
    ...
    compression: zstd

Advanced Configuration

Several helper files are leveraged to provide additional capabilities automatically:

• gRPC settings
• TLS and mTLS settings
• Queuing, timeout and retry settings. Note that timeout setting controls how long the exporter waits for ACK of a data sent over STEF/gRPC stream.