Collector.
The one OpenTelemetry collector: its receivers, its processors, and its exporters
Figure 1Collectorspecified
- kind
- definition
- scope
- platform
- key
- its name
- store
- postgres
- family
- observability
Fields#
| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
receivers | [one of otlp-grpc | otlp-http] | yes | |
processors | [one of redact-secrets | attribute-allow-list | batch | memory-limit] | yes | redaction runs first |
exporters | SignalExport | yes | |
listener | Listener | yes | on the private network only |
buffer_limit_bytes | bytes | yes | a role’s local buffer when the collector is unreachable; past it, metrics are dropped and a request is never blocked |
Routes that use it#
No route takes or returns Collector directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.