Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector is designed to be a vendor-agnostic implementation of receiving, processing, and exporting telemetry data.

Deployment

There are two different supported deployment models:

• As an agent, running on each node.
• Gateways bridge a given network.

Concepts

• Receivers accept telemetry data.
• Processors transform telemetry data.
• Exporters forward telemetry data.
• Pipelines tie together receivers, samplers, processors, and exporters.
• Extensions support.

Distribution

The Collector is distributed as a set of components via two repositories:

• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector contains the open source, general purpose, and actively supported core components.
• open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib contains community-maintained components, which may be vendor-specific or lesser-maintained.

Infrastructure is provided for building custom collectors with the required components.

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Children

1. Metric
2. Ports
3. Processor

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