Building a custom collector

[vernonr3]

The build instructions for using ocb at version 110.0 don't work.

The builder-config.yaml is
dist:
name: otelcol-dev
module: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
description: Basic OTel Collector distribution for Developers
output_path: ./otelcol-dev
otelcol_version: "0.110.0"
version: "0.0.1"

exporters:

• gomod:

  NOTE: Prior to v0.86.0 use the loggingexporter instead of debugexporter.

  go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/debugexporter v0.110.0
• gomod:
  go.opentelemetry.io/collector/otlpexporter v0.110.0

processors:

• gomod:
  go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/batchprocessor v0.110.0

receivers:

• gomod:
  go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/otlpreceiver v0.110.0

The response to:
./ocb_110 --config builder-config.yaml

is

2024-09-27T17:04:19.796+0100 INFO internal/command.go:125 OpenTelemetry Collector Builder {"version": "(devel)"}
2024-09-27T17:04:19.797+0100 INFO internal/command.go:161 Using config file {"path": "builder-config.yaml"}
2024-09-27T17:04:19.797+0100 INFO builder/config.go:142 Using go {"go-executable": "/snap/bin/go"}
2024-09-27T17:04:19.798+0100 INFO builder/main.go:101 Sources created {"path": "./otelcol-dev"}
Error: failed to update go.mod: go subcommand failed with args '[mod tidy -compat=1.22]': exit status 1, error message: go: downloading go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/fileprovider v0.110.0
go: downloading go.opentelemetry.io/collector/otlpexporter v0.110.0
go: downloading go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/envprovider v0.110.0
go: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/envprovider@v0.110.0: reading go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/envprovider/go.mod at revision confmap/provider/envprovider/v0.110.0: unknown revision confmap/provider/envprovider/v0.110.0

Am I right in thinking there are versioning issues?

Thanks

[svrnm]

@open-telemetry/collector-approvers PTAL

[tiffany76]

Possibly related to open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases#665.

[mx-psi]

Hey, we are looking into a more hands-free approach but what we should do for now is add this to the manifest:

providers:
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/envprovider v1.16.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/fileprovider v1.16.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/httpprovider v0.110.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/httpsprovider v0.110.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/yamlprovider v0.110.0

[tiffany76]

Thanks, @mx-psi! To spell this out as clearly as possible, the solution is to add the providers block you've supplied to the end of the manifest, around line 167 of the Building a custom Collector page?

[mx-psi]

@tiffany76 Yes, that's it! Regardless of what approach we take, I think we should update the docs to have that