Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Configuration
The Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes is a Helm chart for the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector. This chart creates a Kubernetes DaemonSet along with other Kubernetes objects in a Kubernetes cluster and provides a unified way to receive, process and export metric, trace, and log data for:
- Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Cloud Platform
- Splunk Observability Cloud
Check the Splunk Observability Cloud documentation for full details on Kubernetes configuration using the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes, including:
Application
When your Splunk deployment is ingesting Kubernetes data, you can use it to achieve the following Security use cases:
- Detecting Kubernetes scanning activity
- Monitoring Kubernetes sensitive role activities
- Monitoring Kubernetes sensitive object access
You can also use the data to achieve the following Observability use cases: