# opentelemetry-collector

**Licence:** Apache-2.0 | **Language:** Go | **Source:** https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector

## Role

Telemetry pipeline (metrics, logs, traces)

## Why it's here

One collector for all three signal types. Vendor-neutral and the industry is standardising on it.

## Running it

Started by `docker compose up -d` on port 4317.

```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/opentelemetry-collector.tar.gz -C ./sources
```