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...| OpenTelemetry
Why and how to send signals directly from app to backends| OpenTelemetry
You can deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector on a wide variety of operating systems and architectures. The following instructions show how to download and install the latest stable version of the Collector. If you aren’t familiar with the deployment models, components, and repositories applicable to the OpenTelemetry Collector, first review the Data Collection and Deployment Methods page. Docker The following commands pull a Docker image and run the Collector in a container. Replace 0.120.0 w...| OpenTelemetry
Why and how to send signals to collectors and from there to backends| OpenTelemetry
Why and how to send signals to a single OTLP end-point and from there to backends| OpenTelemetry
Learn how to configure the Collector to suit your needs| OpenTelemetry