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diff --git a/‎.chloggen/f_hints_logs.yaml
+27 b/‎.chloggen/f_hints_logs.yaml
+27
diff --git a/‎receiver/receivercreator/README.md
+96-3 b/‎receiver/receivercreator/README.md
+96-3
diff --git a/‎receiver/receivercreator/config_test.go
+37 b/‎receiver/receivercreator/config_test.go
+37
diff --git a/‎receiver/receivercreator/discovery.go
+94-4 b/‎receiver/receivercreator/discovery.go
+94-4
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: receivercreator
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Add support for starting logs' collection based on provided k8s annotations' hints
+
+# Mandatory: One or more tracking issues related to the change. You can use the PR number here if no issue exists.
+issues: [34427]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
+
+# If your change doesn't affect end users or the exported elements of any package,
+# you should instead start your pull request title with [chore] or use the "Skip Changelog" label.
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: [user]
@@ -458,7 +458,8 @@ receiver_creator/metrics:
      # ignore_receivers: []
 ```
 
-Find bellow the supported annotations that user can define to automatically enable receivers to start collecting metrics signals from the target Pods/containers.
+Find bellow the supported annotations that user can define to automatically enable receivers to start
+collecting metrics and logs signals from the target Pods/containers.
 
 ### Supported metrics annotations
 
@@ -511,11 +512,76 @@ The current implementation relies on the implementation of `k8sobserver` extensi
 the [pod_endpoint](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/v0.111.0/extension/observer/k8sobserver/pod_endpoint.go).
 The hints are evaluated per container by extracting the annotations from each [`Port` endpoint](#Port) that is emitted. 
 
+### Supported logs annotations
+
+This feature enables `filelog` receiver in order to collect logs from the discovered Pods.
+
+#### Enable/disable discovery
+
+`io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs/enabled` (Required. Example: `"true"`)
+
+By default `"false"`.
+
+#### Define configuration
+
+The default configuration for the `filelog` receiver is the following:
+
+```yaml
+include:
+  - /var/log/pods/`pod.namespace`_`pod.name`_`pod.uid`/`container_name`/*.log
+include_file_name: false
+include_file_path: true
+operators:
+  - id: container-parser
+    type: container
+```
+This default can be extended or overridden using the respective annotation:
+`io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs/config`
+
+**Example:**
+
+```yaml
+io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs/config: |
+  include_file_name: true
+  max_log_size: "2MiB"
+  operators:
+    - type: container
+      id: container-parser
+    - type: regex_parser
+      regex: "^(?P<time>\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} \\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}) (?P<sev>[A-Z]*) (?P<msg>.*)$"
+```
+
+`include` cannot be overridden and is fixed to discovered container's log file path.
+
+#### Support multiple target containers
+
+Users can target the annotation to a specific container by suffixing it with the name of that container:
+`io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs.<container_name>/endpoint`.
+For example:
+```yaml
+io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs.busybox/config: |
+  max_log_size: "3MiB"
+  operators:
+    - type: container
+      id: container-parser
+    - id: some
+      type: add
+      field: attributes.tag
+      value: hints
+```
+where `busybox` is the name of the target container.
+
+If a Pod is annotated with both container level hints and pod level hints the container level hints have priority and
+the Pod level hints are used as a fallback (see detailed example bellow).
+
+The current implementation relies on the implementation of `k8sobserver` extension and specifically
+the [pod_endpoint](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/v0.111.0/extension/observer/k8sobserver/pod_endpoint.go).
+The hints are evaluated per container by extracting the annotations from each [`Pod Container` endpoint](#Pod Container) that is emitted.
 
 
 ### Examples
 
-#### Metrics example
+#### Metrics and Logs example
 
 Collector's configuration:
 ```yaml
@@ -525,12 +591,22 @@ receivers:
     discovery:
       enabled: true
     receivers:
+  
+  receiver_creator/logs:
+    watch_observers: [ k8s_observer ]
+    discovery:
+      enabled: true
+    receivers:
 
 service:
   extensions: [ k8s_observer]
   pipelines:
     metrics:
-      receivers: [ receiver_creator ]
+      receivers: [ receiver_creator/metrics ]
+      processors: []
+      exporters: [ debug ]
+    logs:
+      receivers: [ receiver_creator/logs ]
       processors: []
       exporters: [ debug ]
 ```
@@ -600,6 +676,23 @@ spec:
           endpoint: "http://`endpoint`/nginx_status"
           collection_interval: "30s"
           timeout: "20s"
+
+        # redis pod container logs hints
+        io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs.redis/enabled: "true"
+        io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs.redis/config: |
+          max_log_size: "4MiB"
+          operators:
+            - type: container
+              id: container-parser
+            - id: some
+              type: add
+              field: attributes.tag
+              value: logs_hints
+
+        # nginx pod container logs hints
+        io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs.webserver/enabled: "true"
+        io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs.webserver/config: |
+          max_log_size: "3MiB"
     spec:
       volumes:
         - name: nginx-conf
 
@@ -299,3 +299,40 @@ func (*nopWithoutEndpointFactory) CreateTraces(
 		cfg:      cfg,
 	}, nil
 }
+
+type nopWithFilelogConfig struct {
+	Include         []string `mapstructure:"include"`
+	IncludeFileName bool     `mapstructure:"include_file_name"`
+	IncludeFilePath bool     `mapstructure:"include_file_path"`
+	Operators       []any    `mapstructure:"operators"`
+}
+
+type nopWithFilelogFactory struct {
+	rcvr.Factory
+}
+
+type nopWithFilelogReceiver struct {
+	mockComponent
+	consumer.Logs
+	consumer.Metrics
+	consumer.Traces
+	rcvr.Settings
+	cfg component.Config
+}
+
+func (*nopWithFilelogFactory) CreateDefaultConfig() component.Config {
+	return &nopWithFilelogConfig{}
+}
+
+func (*nopWithFilelogFactory) CreateLogs(
+	_ context.Context,
+	rcs rcvr.Settings,
+	cfg component.Config,
+	nextConsumer consumer.Logs,
+) (rcvr.Logs, error) {
+	return &nopWithEndpointReceiver{
+		Logs:     nextConsumer,
+		Settings: rcs,
+		cfg:      cfg,
+	}, nil
+}
@@ -21,11 +21,15 @@ const (
 
 	// hint suffix for metrics
 	otelMetricsHints = otelHints + ".metrics"
+	otelLogsHints    = otelHints + ".logs"
 
 	// hints definitions
 	discoveryEnabledHint = "enabled"
 	scraperHint          = "scraper"
 	configHint           = "config"
+
+	logsReceiver          = "filelog"
+	defaultLogPathPattern = "/var/log/pods/%s_%s_%s/%s/*.log"
 )
 
 // k8sHintsBuilder creates configurations from hints provided as Pod's annotations.
@@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ func (builder *k8sHintsBuilder) createReceiverTemplateFromHints(env observer.End
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not get endpoint type: %v", zap.Any("env", env))
 	}
 
-	if endpointType != string(observer.PortType) {
+	if endpointType != string(observer.PortType) && endpointType != string(observer.PodContainerType) {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
 
@@ -72,7 +76,14 @@ func (builder *k8sHintsBuilder) createReceiverTemplateFromHints(env observer.End
 		return nil, nil
 	}
 
-	return builder.createScraper(pod.Annotations, env)
+	switch endpointType {
+	case string(observer.PortType):
+		return builder.createScraper(pod.Annotations, env)
+	case string(observer.PodContainerType):
+		return builder.createLogsReceiver(pod.Annotations, env)
+	default:
+		return nil, nil
+	}
 }
 
 func (builder *k8sHintsBuilder) createScraper(
@@ -91,7 +102,7 @@ func (builder *k8sHintsBuilder) createScraper(
 	port = p.Port
 	pod := p.Pod
 
-	if !discoveryMetricsEnabled(annotations, otelMetricsHints, fmt.Sprint(port)) {
+	if !discoveryEnabled(annotations, otelMetricsHints, fmt.Sprint(port)) {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
 
@@ -118,6 +129,48 @@ func (builder *k8sHintsBuilder) createScraper(
 	return &recTemplate, err
 }
 
+func (builder *k8sHintsBuilder) createLogsReceiver(
+	annotations map[string]string,
+	env observer.EndpointEnv,
+) (*receiverTemplate, error) {
+	if _, ok := builder.ignoreReceivers[logsReceiver]; ok {
+		// receiver is ignored
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	var containerName string
+	var c observer.PodContainer
+	err := mapstructure.Decode(env, &c)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not extract pod's container: %v", zap.Any("env", env))
+	}
+	if c.Name == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not extract container name: %v", zap.Any("container", c))
+	}
+	containerName = c.Name
+	pod := c.Pod
+
+	if !discoveryEnabled(annotations, otelLogsHints, containerName) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	subreceiverKey := logsReceiver
+	builder.logger.Debug("handling added hinted receiver", zap.Any("subreceiverKey", subreceiverKey))
+
+	userConfMap := createLogsConfig(
+		annotations,
+		containerName,
+		pod.UID,
+		pod.Name,
+		pod.Namespace,
+		builder.logger)
+
+	recTemplate, err := newReceiverTemplate(fmt.Sprintf("%v/%v_%v", subreceiverKey, pod.UID, containerName), userConfMap)
+	recTemplate.signals = receiverSignals{metrics: false, logs: true, traces: false}
+
+	return &recTemplate, err
+}
+
 func getScraperConfFromAnnotations(
 	annotations map[string]string,
 	defaultEndpoint, scopeSuffix string,
@@ -149,6 +202,43 @@ func getScraperConfFromAnnotations(
 	return conf, nil
 }
 
+func createLogsConfig(
+	annotations map[string]string,
+	containerName, podUID, podName, namespace string,
+	logger *zap.Logger,
+) userConfigMap {
+	scopeSuffix := containerName
+	logPath := fmt.Sprintf(defaultLogPathPattern, namespace, podName, podUID, containerName)
+	cont := []any{map[string]any{"id": "container-parser", "type": "container"}}
+	defaultConfMap := userConfigMap{
+		"include":           []string{logPath},
+		"include_file_path": true,
+		"include_file_name": false,
+		"operators":         cont,
+	}
+
+	configStr, found := getHintAnnotation(annotations, otelLogsHints, configHint, scopeSuffix)
+	if !found || configStr == "" {
+		return defaultConfMap
+	}
+
+	userConf := make(map[string]any)
+	if err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(configStr), &userConf); err != nil {
+		logger.Debug("could not unmarshal configuration from hint", zap.Error(err))
+	}
+
+	for k, v := range userConf {
+		if k == "include" {
+			// path cannot be other than the one of the target container
+			logger.Warn("include setting cannot be set through annotation's hints")
+			continue
+		}
+		defaultConfMap[k] = v
+	}
+
+	return defaultConfMap
+}
+
 func getHintAnnotation(annotations map[string]string, hintBase string, hintKey string, suffix string) (string, bool) {
 	// try to scope the hint more on container level by suffixing
 	// with .<port> in case of Port event or # TODO: .<container_name> in case of Pod Container event
@@ -162,7 +252,7 @@ func getHintAnnotation(annotations map[string]string, hintBase string, hintKey s
 	return podLevelHint, ok
 }
 
-func discoveryMetricsEnabled(annotations map[string]string, hintBase string, scopeSuffix string) bool {
+func discoveryEnabled(annotations map[string]string, hintBase string, scopeSuffix string) bool {
 	enabledHint, found := getHintAnnotation(annotations, hintBase, discoveryEnabledHint, scopeSuffix)
 	if !found {
 		return false