NTP Receiver 🔗

Description 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector provides this integration as the ntp monitor type for the Smart Agent Receiver.

Use the NTP receiver to retrieve clock offset from an NTP server. The receiver enforces a minimum interval of 30 minutes.

This receiver is available on Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows.

Benefits 🔗

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

View metrics. You can create your own custom dashboards, and most monitors provide built-in dashboards as well. For information about dashboards, see View dashboards in Observability Cloud.
View a data-driven visualization of the physical servers, virtual machines, AWS instances, and other resources in your environment that are visible to Infrastructure Monitoring. For information about navigators, see Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring navigators.
Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Use the Metric Finder.

Installation 🔗

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:
Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.
Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration 🔗

To use this Smart Agent monitor with the Collector, include the smartagent receiver and service pipeline in your configuration file. The Smart Agent receiver is fully supported only on x86_64/amd64 platforms.

Read more in Use Smart Agent monitors with the Collector.
Learn about config options in Collector default configuration.

See the examples below for more details.

Configuration example 🔗

To activate this monitor in the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, add the following to your agent configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/ntp:
    type: ntp
    ... # Additional config

To complete the receiver activation, you must also include the receiver in a metrics pipeline. To do this, add the receiver to the service > pipelines > metrics > receivers section of your configuration file. For example:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/ntp]

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the ntp receiver:

Option	Required	Type	Description
`host`	Yes	`string`	The host or IP address of the NTP server. For example, `pool.ntp.org`.
`port`	No	`integer`	The port of the NTP server. Default is `123`.
`version`	No	`integer`	NTP protocol version. Default is `4`.
`timeout`	No	`int64`	Timeout in seconds for the request. Default is `5s`.

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration:

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