open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
OpenTelemetry Collector
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #520 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 19%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 409 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #52 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 8, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a vendor-agnostic service to receive, process, and export telemetry data including traces, metrics, and logs.
- Eliminates the need for multiple agents by supporting various open-source telemetry formats and backends in a single, extensible collector.
- Use for consolidating telemetry data collection from diverse sources into a unified pipeline for observability in cloud-native environments.
- Use for deploying a customizable telemetry agent or collector that can be extended without modifying core code to fit specific monitoring needs.
- Use for integrating telemetry data from protocols like Jaeger and Prometheus into commercial or open-source monitoring backends efficiently.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process and export telemetry data. In addition, it removes the need to run, operate and maintain multiple agents/collectors in order to support open-source telemetry data formats (e.g. Jaeger, Prometheus, etc.) to multiple open-source or commercial back-ends.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+379 stars over 88 days across 12 snapshot days; best day +6 on Oct 2.
Forks
2.3K+146
Open issues
698-1
Compared with peers in Monitoring
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 18, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| netdata/netdata | 81.1K | +0 | 75 | 12 days ago |
| henrygd/beszel | 26.4K | +0 | 54 | 18 days ago |
| influxdata/telegraf | 17.9K | +0 | 75 | 8 days ago |
| ccfos/nightingale | 13.4K | +0 | 75 | 9 days ago |
| drakkan/sftpgo | 12.7K | +0 | 75 | 33 days ago |
| open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector | 7.7K | +0 | 75 | 3 days ago |
| Category median | 17.9K | +0 | 75 | — |
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