OpenTelemetry Collector Exporters
An exporter, which can be push or pull-based, is how you send data to one or more backends/destinations. Exporters may support one or more data sources.
For this workshop, we will be using the otlphttp exporter. The OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) is a vendor-neutral, standardised protocol for transmitting telemetry data. The OTLP exporter sends data to a server that implements the OTLP protocol. The OTLP exporter supports both gRPC and HTTP/JSON protocols.
%%{ init:{ "theme":"base", "themeVariables": { "primaryColor": "#ffffff", "clusterBkg": "#eff2fb", "defaultLinkColor": "#333333" } } }%% flowchart LR; style Exporters 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