Running HyperDx without ingestion key about hyperdx

[sharpSteff]

@MikeShi42 on first sight changing the otel-collector config worked!! Thanks!

[MikeShi42]

I think the closest to doing this out of the box would be to use local mode, though probably not exactly the solution you're looking for.

Alternatively, you can modify the collector config to have the manually attached in this line of code:

hyperdx/docker/otel-collector/config.yaml

Line 31 in 4176710

from_context: authorization

To something like:

- key: __HDX_API_KEY
   value: "<YOUR_KEY_HERE>"
   action: upsert

Then you can mount in your modified config file into the container to overwrite its default config located at /etc/otelcol-contrib/config.yaml. Alternatively, you can bake it in by building your own collector image.

If modifying the otel collector isn't possible, there should be a few env vars you can enable on the containers to try to bypass key checks in the ingestion pipeline, though the otel collector way is a bit more reliable imo.