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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