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OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process and export telemetry data. In addition, it removes the need to run, operate and maintain multiple agents/collectors in order to support open-source telemetry data formats (e.g. Jaeger, Prometheus, etc.) sending to multiple open-source or commercial back-ends.

Objectives:

• Usable: Reasonable default configuration, supports popular protocols, runs and collects out of the box.
• Performant: Highly stable and performant under varying loads and configurations.
• Observable: An exemplar of an observable service.
• Extensible: Customizable without touching the core code.
• Unified: Single codebase, deployable as an agent or collector with support for traces, metrics and logs.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Triagers (@open-telemetry/collector-triagers):

• Andrew Hsu, Lightstep
• Steve Flanders, Splunk

Approvers (@open-telemetry/collector-approvers):

• Dmitrii Anoshin, Splunk
• Jay Camp, Splunk
• Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Red Hat
• Owais Lone, Splunk

Maintainers (@open-telemetry/collector-maintainers):

• Bogdan Drutu, Splunk
• Tigran Najaryan, Splunk

Learn more about roles in the community repository.

Thanks to all the people who already contributed!