debug exporter is not supported when using collector with operator

[gaur-piyush]

Describe the bug

I am trying to configure a collector after deploying the operator. I am trying to use debug exported but the pod keeps restarting as it's not supporting debug exporter.

Steps to reproduce
Deploy the operator and use a sample collector config with debug exporter.

What did you expect to see?
The pod should be running smoothly.

What did you see instead?
Pod going into CrashLoopBackoff mode with the below error.

Error: failed to get config: cannot unmarshal the configuration: 1 error(s) decoding:

* error decoding 'exporters': unknown type: "debug" for id: "debug" (valid values: [kafka logicmonitor skywalking otlp coralogix googlemanagedprometheus influxdb instana jaeger loadbalancing mezmo logging f5cloud googlecloud splunk_hec dynatrace googlecloudpubsub loki opencensus prometheus alibabacloud_logservice awskinesis azuremonitor prometheusremotewrite tanzuobservability signalfx sumologic carbon dataset sentry file parquet awsxray azuredataexplorer datadog jaeger_thrift tencentcloud_logservice zipkin awscloudwatchlogs cassandra elasticsearch awsemf awss3 logzio sapm otlphttp clickhouse pulsar])
2024/12/17 07:56:58 collector server run finished with error: failed to get config: cannot unmarshal the configuration: 1 error(s) decoding:

* error decoding 'exporters': unknown type: "debug" for id: "debug" (valid values: [kafka logicmonitor skywalking otlp coralogix googlemanagedprometheus influxdb instana jaeger loadbalancing mezmo logging f5cloud googlecloud splunk_hec dynatrace googlecloudpubsub loki opencensus prometheus alibabacloud_logservice awskinesis azuremonitor prometheusremotewrite tanzuobservability signalfx sumologic carbon dataset sentry file parquet awsxray azuredataexplorer datadog jaeger_thrift tencentcloud_logservice zipkin awscloudwatchlogs cassandra elasticsearch awsemf awss3 logzio sapm otlphttp clickhouse pulsar])

What version did you use?
0.111.0

What config did you use?

apiVersion: opentelemetry.io/v1beta1
kind: OpenTelemetryCollector
metadata:
  name: collector-with-ta
  namespace: opentelemetry-operator
spec:
  mode: statefulset
  image: ""
  imagePullPolicy: Always
  targetAllocator:
    enabled: true
    serviceAccount: target-allocator
  config:
    receivers:
      prometheus:
        config:
          scrape_configs:
          - job_name: test
            scrape_interval: 30s
            static_configs:
            - targets: [ '0.0.0.0:8888' ]
    exporters:
      debug:
        verbosity: normal
      googlecloud:
        project: ""
        metric:
          prefix: custom.googleapis.com
        sending_queue:
          enabled: true
          queue_size: 20000
    extensions:
      health_check: 
        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:13133
    processors:
      batch:
        send_batch_size: 8192
        send_batch_max_size: 10000
        timeout: 10s
      memory_limiter:
        check_interval: 5s
        limit_percentage: 80
        spike_limit_percentage: 30
      resourcedetection:
        detectors: [gcp]
        timeout: 10s
      filter/cv:
        metrics:
          include:
            match_type: strict
            metric_names: "" 
    service:
      extensions:
      - health_check
      pipelines:
        metrics:
          receivers: [prometheus]
          processors: [filter/cv]
          exporters: [googlecloud]

Environment

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS"

Additional context
NA

[jaronoff97]

can you share your operator version and collector version? Your collector is complaining that the build doesn't have the debug exporter which should have existed since v0.86.0 open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector#11337

[swiatekm]

@gaur-piyush have you changed the default collector image through a command-line switch? By default, the operator uses the collector core distribution, whose included components can be found here. From the error message you're getting, it looks like you're using a different distribution.