Document Reference:

 [-] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html/red_hat_build_of_opentelemetry/configuring-the-collector#aws-cloudwatch-exporter_otel-collector-exporters 

Issues:

1. Creation of secret to authenticate with AWS Cloudwatch is missing:

$ oc create secret generic aws-credentials --from-literal=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<access-key-id> --from-literal=AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<aws-secret-access-key> -n observability 

2. And the way to use this secret in OpenTelemetryCollector is also missing. Below section needs to be added explicitly in OpenTelemetryCollector CR:

spec:
  envFrom:
  - secretRef:
      name: aws-credentials