AMD GPUs

The collector monitors AMD GPUs directly from the Linux kernel's sysfs and hwmon interfaces. No ROCm, no user-space libraries, and no additional drivers are needed beyond the standard AMDGPU kernel module.

Requirements

• Linux with the amdgpu kernel driver
• Kernel 5.x+ (sysfs/hwmon paths are stable from 5.x onwards)

Collected metrics

Metric	Description
hw.gpu.utilization	Compute utilization (0.0–1.0)
hw.gpu.memory.utilization	Memory controller utilization (0.0–1.0)
hw.gpu.memory.limit	Total VRAM (bytes)
hw.gpu.memory.usage	Used VRAM (bytes)
hw.gpu.memory.free	Free VRAM (bytes)
hw.gpu.temperature	Die temperature (°C)
hw.gpu.fan_speed	Fan speed (RPM)
hw.gpu.power.draw	Current power draw (W)
hw.gpu.power.limit	Power cap (W)
hw.gpu.energy.consumed	Cumulative energy (J)

Docker

docker run -d \
  --name otel-gpu-collector \
  --device /dev/kfd:/dev/kfd \
  --device /dev/dri:/dev/dri \
  --pid=host \
  -e OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=my-app \
  -e OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES='deployment.environment=production' \
  -e OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://otel-collector:4318 \
  <gpu-collector-image>

--pid=host is required for per-process GPU attribution (cmdline, PID, zombie state).

Docker Compose

services:
  otel-gpu-collector:
    image: <gpu-collector-image>
    pid: host
    environment:
      OTEL_SERVICE_NAME: my-app
      OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES: deployment.environment=production
      OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://otel-collector:4318
    devices:
      - /dev/kfd:/dev/kfd
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    restart: always

Kubernetes (DaemonSet)

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  name: otel-gpu-collector
  namespace: monitoring
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: otel-gpu-collector
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: otel-gpu-collector
    spec:
      hostPID: true
      containers:
        - name: collector
          image: <gpu-collector-image>
          env:
            - name: OTEL_SERVICE_NAME
              value: gpu-collector
            - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
              value: deployment.environment=production
            - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
              value: http://otel-collector.monitoring.svc.cluster.local:4318
          securityContext:
            privileged: false
          volumeMounts:
            - name: sys
              mountPath: /sys
              readOnly: true
            - name: dri
              mountPath: /dev/dri
      volumes:
        - name: sys
          hostPath:
            path: /sys
        - name: dri
          hostPath:
            path: /dev/dri

INFO

Docker --pid=host (or Kubernetes hostPID: true) and /dev/dri are required for per-process GPU attribution via DRM fdinfo.