diff --git a/exporter/loadbalancingexporter/README.md b/exporter/loadbalancingexporter/README.md index c7a7cfa8f48a..c3d6427de973 100644 --- a/exporter/loadbalancingexporter/README.md +++ b/exporter/loadbalancingexporter/README.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The options for `routing_key` are: `service`, `traceID`, `metric` (metric name), If no `routing_key` is configured, the default routing mechanism is `traceID` for traces, while `service` is the default for metrics. This means that spans belonging to the same `traceID` (or `service.name`, when `service` is used as the `routing_key`) will be sent to the same backend. -It requires a source of backend information to be provided: static, with a fixed list of backends, or DNS, with a hostname that will resolve to all IP addresses to use. The DNS resolver will periodically check for updates. +It requires a source of backend information to be provided: static, with a fixed list of backends, or DNS, with a hostname that will resolve to all IP addresses to use (such as a Kubernetes headless service). The DNS resolver will periodically check for updates. Note that either the Trace ID or Service name is used for the decision on which backend to use: the actual backend load isn't taken into consideration. Even though this load-balancer won't do round-robin balancing of the batches, the load distribution should be very similar among backends with a standard deviation under 5% at the current configuration. @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ exporters: - backend-2:4317 - backend-3:4317 - backend-4:4317 + # Notice to config a headless service DNS in Kubernetes + # dns: + # hostname: otelcol-headless.observability.svc.cluster.local service: pipelines: