OpenTelemetry Collector API

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-agnostic proxy for receiving, processing, and exporting telemetry data. It exposes HTTP and gRPC endpoints for receiving OTLP data and provides a configuration API for managing pipelines, receivers, processors, and exporters at runtime via the zPages diagnostic extension and config file hot-reloading.

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: opentelemetry:opentelemetry-collector-api
name: OpenTelemetry Collector API
description: The OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-agnostic proxy for receiving, processing, and exporting
  telemetry data. It exposes HTTP and gRPC endpoints for receiving OTLP data and provides a configuration
  API for managing pipelines, receivers, processors, and exporters at runtime via the zPages diagnostic
  extension and config file hot-reloading.
humanURL: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
tags:
- Collector
- Configuration
- Observability
- Pipeline
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
- type: Reference
  url: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/configuration/
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector