Forward otelcol through centreon broker

Hello, i haven’t tried anything similar to that yet, but based on what i saw on the Stream Connector documentation How to write a Stream Connector | Centreon Documentation they allow the use of LUA scripts to export events and performance data to any protocol, but not directly the OTEL data. That being said i believe that CMA pushes data through OTEL back to the pollers, so maybe you can configure CMA to target both the poller and your external source, or maybe use a gateway between that would split trafic.

i’m not an expert in that domain, but those are what i thought about.

Hi Alexandre,

Thanks for your answer.

I’ve already created a Stream Connector that emits events in OTLP JSON format, but this approach turns out to be limiting for my use case. The CMA agent actually sends much more information than what I finally process in Centreon, mainly because of the filtering that happens along the way.

Being able to forward the raw OTEL data (or at least a broader subset of it) would allow me to separate concerns more cleanly: using Centreon for supervision/alerting, while sending richer metrics data to Grafana for observability purposes.

That’s why I was wondering whether there is (or will be) a more native way to forward OTEL telemetry through Centreon Broker, or if the recommended approach is really to duplicate the flow earlier (at the CMA or via an intermediate OTEL collector).

That’s a good problematic, but yeah i don’t have the response to that. At least from my current understanding of Centreon architecture, that is not possible, but i can definitly be wrong, if someone has more information that i have.