This video covers everything you need to know if you're new to the OpenTelemetry collector. In it I discuss the components: receivers, processors, exporters, pipelines, connectors and extensions.
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00:00 Intro
00:27 What is the OpenTelemetry collector?
00:51 How do you run an OpenTelemetry collector?
00:58 Collector standalone binary
01:11 Collector container image
01:18 Collector on Kubernetes
01:34 The components of a OpenTelemetry collector
02:25 Quick recap
02:34 Receivers
04:25 Processors
05:34 Exporters
06:57 Pipelines
07:26 How to monitor the OTEL collector itself (service telemetry)
08:00 Connectors
08:29 Extensions
08:53 Recap
09:03 The collector: Getting Observability signals from A to B
09:27 Thank you for your comments and feedback