OSS collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector is the vendor-agnostic agent that standardizes the collection, processing, and export of all three telemetry signals.

The OpenTelemetry Collector (OTel Collector) unifies your observability pipeline: it receives, processes, and exports traces, metrics, and logs through a single, high-performance binary. This solution eliminates the need for multiple agents, supporting key open-source formats like Prometheus, Jaeger, and Fluent Bit. Deploy it as a sidecar or a dedicated service to offload critical tasks (batching, retries, security filtering) from your application code, ensuring efficient data flow to any chosen backend.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/