Receivers, Processors, Exporters

Pipelines per signal

The Collector is built from components. Receivers accept data (OTLP, Prometheus scraping, Jaeger, Zipkin, filelog, host metrics, Kafka). Processors transform it (batching, memory limiting, filtering, attribute changes, sampling, Kubernetes metadata enrichment). Exporters send it to backends (OTLP, Prometheus, Kafka, vendor exporters, debug). Connectors join pipelines, and extensions add capabilities such as health checks. A pipeline wires receivers, processors and exporters for one signal type. The core distribution has fewer components; the contrib distribution has many more, and you can build a custom one.

A telemetry pipeline

The Collector receives telemetry, processes it and exports it, decoupling applications from backends.

A mail sorting centre

Letters arrive at different entrances (receivers), are sorted, stamped and bundled (processors), and leave in vans to different cities (exporters).

Check which distribution you run

A component in an example may exist only in the contrib distribution; the core image will reject the configuration.

त्वरित जाँच: Which Collector component type transforms or filters data?

• Receiver
• Processor
• Exporter
• Extension