# OpenTelemetry Collector

Vendor-neutral server, written in Go, that receives, processes and exports traces, metrics and logs telemetry data.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/otel-collector/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://opentelemetry.io
- repository: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
- docs: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
- bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/opentelemetry.io
- mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@opentelemetry

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: OpenTelemetry Authors
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2019
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: analytics
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: build from source

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-26

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 7728
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 408
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://opentelemetry.io (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/ (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/install/binary/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/install/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/install/docker/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/install/kubernetes/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/install/binary/ (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/deployment/gateway/ (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/releases/tag/v0.164.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/install/ (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-neutral server written in Go. It receives telemetry data, processes it and exports it to one or more backends. Applications instrumented with OpenTelemetry SDKs send it OTLP. The [agent deployment page](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/deployment/agent/) places the Collector beside the application, on the same host, as a sidecar or DaemonSet, and the [gateway page](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/deployment/gateway/) describes Collector instances running as a standalone service. The install docs give a prebuilt binary, a Docker image, a Kubernetes install and a build from source. The core Docker image is otel/opentelemetry-collector. The project describes itself as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project.

## Worth knowing

The repository holds the core library and a build target for the core distribution. The release images on ghcr.io come from a separate releases repository.

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