OpenTelemetry Collector: A Friendly Guide for Devs

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  • opentelemetry-collector-contrib

    Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector

  • For a list of receivers, you can use this link.

  • opentelemetry-collector

    OpenTelemetry Collector

  • Then, we set up a batch processor that batches up the spans together and every 1 second sends the batch forward. In production, you would want more than 1 second, but I set this here to 1 second for instant feedback in Jaeger.

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    js extensions for the open-telemetry project

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