flow logs

[techkuz]

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Hello.

Does astronomy shop demo also generates flow logs?

[julianocosta89]

Hello @techkuz, could you define flow logs?

[techkuz]

Hello @techkuz, could you define flow logs?

Hello.

AWS VPC Flow Logs allow you to capture detailed information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. It contains the source and destination IPs, source and destination ports, start and end time, the protocol used, bytes sent and a few other metrics. This data can be useful for debugging security group issues, monitoring ingress and egress traffic as well as checking cross availability zone traffic which helps reduce your cloud bill.

I guess PR's open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#32732 and open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#34164 are related

[julianocosta89]

Thank you for the context!

The demo doesn't capture it at the moment, but you can easily modify the collector config to add it.

Take a look at the section "bring your own backend" here: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/demo/docker-deployment/