Installing OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib

Download the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution

The first step in installing the Open Telemetry Collector is downloading it. For our lab, we will use the wget command to download the .deb package from the OpenTelemetry Github repository.

Obtain the .deb package for your platform from the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib releases page

wget https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/releases/download/v0.96.0/otelcol-contrib_0.96.0_linux_amd64.deb

Install the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution

Install the .deb package using dpkg. Take a look at the dpkg Output tab below to see what the example output of a successful install will look like:

sudo dpkg -i otelcol-contrib_0.96.0_linux_amd64.deb

Selecting previously unselected package otelcol-contrib.
(Reading database ... 64218 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack otelcol-contrib_0.96.0_linux_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking otelcol-contrib (0.96.0) ...
Setting up otelcol-contrib (0.96.0) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/otelcol-contrib.service → /lib/systemd/system/otelcol-contrib.service.