Deployment

Patterns you can apply to deploy the OpenTelemetry collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector consists of a single binary which you can use in different ways, for different use cases. This section describes deployment patterns, their use cases along with pros and cons and best practices for collector configurations for cross-environment and multi-backend deployments. For deployment security considerations, see Collector hosting best practices.

Resources


No Collector

Why and how to send signals directly from app to backends

Agent

Why and how to send signals to collectors and from there to backends

Gateway

Why and how to send signals to a single OTLP end-point and from there to backends