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A Beginner's Guide to the OpenTelemetry Collector
This article explores why the OpenTelemetry Collector is a popular choice for building efficient and adaptable observability pipelines
By supporting various open-source and commercial protocols and formats for logs, traces, and metrics, it eliminates the need for multiple agents and shippers which reduces complexity and cognitive load for your engineering teams. They gather traces, metrics, and logs from instrumented applications, agents, or other systems, and translate the incoming data into OpenTelemetry's internal format, preparing it for further processing and export. The contrib repository boasts over 90 additional receivers, catering to a wide array of data formats and protocols, including popular sources like Jaeger, Prometheus, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS X-Ray, GCP PubSub, and many more.
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