OpenTelemetry Resources

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a fundamental component of the OpenTelemetry architecture but can be a little complicated to sort through, especially when you add in important concepts like pipelines, receivers, processors, exporters, connectors, agents, and gateways. Let’s break it down piece by piece and clear up any confusion.

In the blog, we’ll explore the OpenTelemetry DataDog Receiver kindly donated to the community by Grafana. We’ll review why you might want to convert your DataDog Metrics and Traces into OpenTelemetry (OTel) format and a step-by-step walkthrough.

In this blog, we’ll look at some example configurations that can be used to control telemetry flow in a standard OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector. Three scenarios will cover the current 3 main signal types across metrics, logs and traces.