This distribution can be deployed in the below ways.
If Helm or the installer script is used then the architecture will look similar to above. The default configuration of the components is as follows:
If deployed in standalone, only the splunk-otel-collector is deployed and configured. Note the default configuration for standalone is gateway-mode instead of agent-mode like above:
It is possible to manually configure the splunk-otel-collector running as an agent to send to a splunk-otel-collector gateway instance/cluster. This requires changing the pipeline exporters in the agent to point to the gateway.