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This documents the Okta collector changes from BED-10052 and also includes BED-10053 and BED-10053.

As the number of configuration options has grown, the long Collect Data page was split into multiple pages:

New pages

  • Large Environment Settings — settings for reducing collection volume and tuning throughput in large Okta organizations:
    • limit_user_mfa_collection, limit_app_user_collection, app_user_collection_app_ids (collection scope)
    • endpoint_concurrency, org_concurrency, rate_limit_max_elapsed_seconds, rate_limit_remaining_reserve (concurrency and request controls)
    • *_PAGE_SIZE environment variables (pagination)
  • Performance Telemetry — optional collection diagnostics: enabled, output_directory, reporting_interval_seconds, max_file_bytes, max_interval_records, queue_capacity, plus guidance on reading the telemetry records.

Updated pages

  • Collect Data — now covers authentication configuration only and links to the new pages.
  • Okta App Registration — new step on configuring a client-specific rate limit for the collector.
  • Overview — next steps reordered to match the setup sequence.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added Okta collector guidance for OAuth authentication, application registration, and client-specific rate-limit configuration.
    • Added advanced guidance for large environments, including collection scope, concurrency, page sizes, rate limits, and retry behavior.
    • Added optional performance telemetry documentation covering configuration, limits, diagnostics, and privacy safeguards.
    • Updated Okta navigation and onboarding links to make setup resources easier to find.
    • Clarified credential examples and warnings, including recommendations for RSA-based OAuth authentication.
    • Updated release-note links for Okta pagination settings.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Concurrency and telemetry descriptions need corrections, and the pagination move leaves an existing section link broken.

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What changed in this PR

Reorganizes OpenHound Okta documentation to separate authentication setup from performance tuning and diagnostics.

Changes:

  • Adds dedicated large-environment and telemetry guides.
  • Documents collection scope, concurrency, pagination, and client-specific rate limits.
  • Updates navigation and setup order.
File Description
docs/​openhound/​collectors/​okta/​performance-telemetry.mdx Documents telemetry configuration and interpretation.
docs/​openhound/​collectors/​okta/​overview.mdx Reorders setup links.
docs/​openhound/​collectors/​okta/​okta-app-registration.mdx Adds client-specific rate-limit guidance.
docs/​openhound/​collectors/​okta/​large-environment-settings.mdx Covers collection scope and throughput tuning.
docs/​openhound/​collectors/​okta/​collect-data.mdx Focuses on authentication and links to advanced guides.
docs/​docs.json Adds the new pages to navigation.

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The Okta collector documentation now covers setup, large-environment configuration, and optional performance telemetry. Navigation and release-note links point to the updated guidance.

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Okta collector guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Setup guidance and navigation
docs/openhound/collectors/okta/overview.mdx, docs/openhound/collectors/okta/collect-data.mdx, docs/docs.json
The setup guide updates OAuth, API-token, and private-key instructions. It adds links to advanced settings. The overview reorders its next steps, and navigation adds the new pages.
Large-environment settings
docs/openhound/collectors/okta/large-environment-settings.mdx, docs/openhound/collectors/okta/okta-app-registration.mdx, docs/resources/release-notes/2026-09-08.mdx
The documentation covers collection scope, concurrency, rate limits, page sizes, and fallback retries. The app-registration guide describes client-specific limits and retry behavior. The release note links to the new page.
Performance telemetry
docs/openhound/collectors/okta/performance-telemetry.mdx
The new page describes optional JSONL telemetry, configuration and limits, metric definitions, and excluded data.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/openhound/collectors/okta/collect-data.mdx:
- Line 29: Update the service-app authentication guidance to describe only the
supported RSA public/private key-pair option and remove the symmetric
client-secret alternative, keeping the existing limited read-only permission
guidance unchanged.
- Around line 16-17: Update the setup note in the Okta data-collection
documentation to distinguish BloodHound Enterprise from Community Edition: limit
shared instructions to Okta credential settings, and direct Enterprise users to
the Enterprise deployment guide for the required collector client and
destination configuration. Do not imply that the Community Edition setup applies
unchanged to Enterprise.

Review comments at
@docs/openhound/collectors/okta/large-environment-settings.mdx:
- Line 30: Replace the literal {PREFIX} placeholder throughout the Okta
environment-variable tables with the explicit SOURCES__SOURCE__OKTA prefix so
readers can copy usable variable names directly.
- Line 110: Update the concurrency guidance near the endpoint-specific
rate-limit links to state that Okta’s default concurrency limit is 35 for
Integrator Free organizations and 75 for Workforce Identity and Customer
Identity organizations, and instruct readers to verify their organization’s
applicable limit before setting org_concurrency.

Review comments at @docs/openhound/collectors/okta/okta-app-registration.mdx:
- Line 133: Update the rate-limit recovery statement to clarify that OpenHound
waits and retries within the configured rate_limit_max_elapsed_seconds window,
and that collection can fail with OktaRetryExhaustedError if the window expires.

Review comments at @docs/openhound/collectors/okta/performance-telemetry.mdx:
- Line 119: Update the table description for slot_wait to state that it measures
time waiting for both the Okta endpoint-family concurrency slot and the
organization-wide org_concurrency gate, without implying any additional
behavior.
- Line 95: Update the telemetry documentation around the collector’s failure
behavior to avoid promising an exporter-failure record. State that destination
or writer failures are logged by the collector, may leave no complete telemetry
record, and require readers to check collector logs and treat a missing summary
as incomplete telemetry.
- Line 14: Update the configuration section near “Add the following section to
config.toml” to identify the deployment-specific DLT configuration path: use
.dlt/config.toml for standalone runs, ~/.dlt/config.toml for Docker Compose, and
/app/.dlt/config.toml for Kubernetes mounts; label the example accordingly.

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I left one comment about fixing an anchor link that no longer resolves based on these changes.

Aside from that, I have nothing substantive to add for editorial review. I defer to your judgement on Copilot's suggestions.

The only thing I'm curious about is whether this should accompany a proper OpenHound release, which is our current official distribution model for OpenHound collectors.

Typically, we would advertise changes like this in release notes as well if they're a result of code changes.

Cc: @ConnorMathena

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@jeff-matthews Thanks for the review! Most of the bot findings relate to pre-existing text that this PR only moves to the new standalone pages AS IS — I'd prefer if we addressed those in a follow-up PR rather than grow the scope here. I've fixed the broken release-notes anchor and aligned the CE/Enterprise prerequisites with the GitHub collector's phrasing.

Regarding timing: agreed this should ship with a proper OpenHound release and release notes. We should coordinate the date with product, but I'd like to aim for next week. /CC: @ConnorMathena

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Thank you for the docs contribution @MichaelGrafnetter ❤️. It's very much appreciated.

Let's see what Product says about release coordination. When that becomes more clear, I can work on integrating with other release related docs and prep release notes.

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