The OpenTelemetry Collector receives traces, metrics, and logs, processes the telemetry, and exports it to a wide variety of observability backends using its components. For a conceptual overview of the Collector, see Collector. You are going to learn to do the following in less than five minutes: Set up and run the OpenTelemetry Collector. Send telemetry and see it processed by the Collector. Prerequisites Make sure that your developer environment has the following. This page assumes that yo...
