Splunk OpenTelemetry Network Explorer is comprised of four components that work together to report network telemetry. These are:
- The kernel-collector, which collects network data on each Kubernetes node. The kernel-collectors are deployed as a daemonset.
- The cloud-collector, which gathers cloud provider metadata from the cloud provider's API.
- The k8s-collector, which gathers Kubernetes metadata from the Kubertnetes API.
- The central reducer, which aggregates the data and metadata from the collectors. It sends metrics over the OpenTelemtry Protocol (OTLP) to the OpenTelemetry Collector in gateway mode.
