OpenTelemetry Collector Receivers
Welcome to the receiver portion of the workshop! This is the starting point of the data pipeline of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Let’s dive in.
A receiver, which can be push or pull based, is how data gets into the Collector. Receivers may support one or more data sources. Generally, a receiver accepts data in a specified format, translates it into the internal format and passes it to processors and exporters defined in the applicable pipelines.
%%{ init:{ "theme":"base", "themeVariables": { "primaryColor": "#ffffff", "clusterBkg": "#eff2fb", "defaultLinkColor": "#333333" } } }%% flowchart LR; style M fill:#e20082,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px,color:#fff subgraph Collector A[OTLP] --> M(Receivers) B[JAEGER] --> M(Receivers) C[Prometheus] --> M(Receivers) end subgraph Processors M(Receivers) --> H(Filters, Attributes, etc) E(Extensions) end subgraph Exporters H(Filters, Attributes, etc) --> S(OTLP) H(Filters, Attributes, etc) --> T(JAEGER) H(Filters, Attributes, etc) --> U(Prometheus) end