DevOps Monitoring · Germany (DE)
OpenTelemetry Collector
A vendor-neutral agent for collecting and exporting telemetry data.
The switch
Datadog Agent→OpenTelemetry Collectoralso replaces Splunk Forwarder, New Relic Agent
About
Part of the OpenTelemetry project, it acts as a vendor-agnostic agent to receive, process, and export telemetry data. It can be configured to send data to various backends.
Why we recommend it
- Vendor-neutral
- Extensible
Compare head-to-head
OpenTelemetry Collector vs the US incumbents
Datadog Agent vs OpenTelemetry Collector
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Splunk Forwarder vs OpenTelemetry Collector
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New Relic Agent vs OpenTelemetry Collector
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