OTel Receivers: Other

Supported Receivers

Receiver Collects Signals Stability

activedirectoryds

Scrapes metrics relating to an Active Directory domain controller using the Windows Performance Counters.

Metrics

Beta

activedirectoryinv

Collects inventory data from Active Directory.

Logs

Alpha

carbon

Accepts metrics in the Graphite/Carbon plaintext line protocol (metric.path value timestamp).

Metrics

Beta

collectd

This receiver can receive data exported by the CollectD’s write http plugin.

Metrics

Beta

datadog

Enables translation between Datadog and OpenTelemetry-compatible backends.

Metrics, Logs, Traces

Alpha

expvar

Scrapes metrics from expvar, which exposes data in JSON format from an HTTP endpoint.

Metrics

Alpha

faro

Telemetry data in Faro format that adheres to the Faro OpenAPI schema.

Logs, Traces

Alpha

flinkmetrics

Flink’s REST API to collect Jobmanager, Taskmanager, Job, Task and Operator metrics.

Metrics

Alpha

fluentforward

Runs a TCP server that accepts events via the Fluent Forward protocol.

Logs

Beta

jaeger

Receives trace data in the Jaeger format.

Traces

Beta

libhoney

Accept Trace and Logs signals that are emitted from applications that are instrumented using Libhoney libraries.

Logs, Traces

Alpha

loki

Implements the Loki push api as specified in Loki HTTP API: Ingest logs.

Logs

Alpha

namedpipe

Supports opening a Unix Named Pipe (aka FIFO), and reading logs from it.

Logs

Alpha

nsxt

Fetches metrics important to run virtual networking using NSX-T.

Metrics

Alpha

ntp

Periodically retrieves the clock offset from a NTP server.

Metrics

Beta

otelarrow

Receives telemetry data using OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow and standard OTLP protocol via gRPC.

Metrics, Logs, Traces

Beta

otlp

Accepts metrics, logs, and traces pushed over the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) on gRPC or HTTP.

Metrics, Logs, Traces

Stable

podman

Queries the Podman service API to fetch stats for all running containers on a configured interval.

Metrics

Alpha

pprof

Collects profiles from files specified with a glob pattern, from a remote endpoint or the running collector.

prometheus

Receives metric data in Prometheus format.

Metrics

Beta

prometheusremotewrite

Receives data from the Prometheus Remote Write 2.0 protocol.

Metrics

Alpha

purefa

Receives metrics from the Pure Storage FlashArray.

Metrics

Alpha

purefb

Receives metrics from Pure Storage FlashBlade via the Pure Storage FlashBlade OpenMetrics Exporter

Metrics

Alpha

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receivercreator

This receiver can instantiate other receivers at runtime based on whether observed endpoints match a configured rule.

Metrics

Beta -→

redfish

Fetches metrics for a server running a Redfish) API.

Metrics

Development

riak

Collect Riak metrics from the /stats endpoint.

Metrics

Beta

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signalfx

The SignalFx receiver accepts:

Metrics, Logs

Deprecated -→

simpleprometheus

Provides a simple configuration interface to configure the prometheus receiver to scrape metrics from a single target.

Metrics

Unmaintained

skywalking

Receives trace data and metric data in SkyWalking format.

Metrics, Traces

Beta (Traces), Development (Metrics)

splunkenterprise

a pull based tool which enables the ingestion of performance metrics for Splunk Enterprise

Metrics

Alpha

splunkhec

Receiver accepts events in the Splunk HEC format.

Metrics, Logs

Beta

sshcheck

Creates stats by connecting to an SSH server which may be an SFTP server.

Metrics

Beta

statsd

Ingests StatsD messages.

Metrics

Beta

stef

Receives data via gRPC in OTel/STEF format.

Metrics

Alpha

syslog

Parses Syslogs received over TCP or UDP.

Logs

Beta

tcplog

The TCP Log Receiver receives logs over TCP.

Logs

Alpha

tlscheck

Emits metrics about x.509 certificates.

Metrics

Alpha

udplog

Receives logs over UDP.

Logs

Alpha

vcenter

Fetches metrics from a vCenter or ESXi host running VMware vSphere APIs.

Metrics

Alpha

vcr

The OpenTelemetry Verbatim Capture & Replay (VCR) toolset enables full-fidelity capture and replay of all telemetry data stored on disk.

Metrics, Logs, Traces

Development

wavefront

Accepts metrics and depends on carbonreceiver proto and transport.

Metrics

Deprecated

webhookevent

A push based event collector component meant to act as a generally available receiver for any webhook style data source.

Logs

Beta

windowsservice

A receiver for scraping information about the state of services running on a Windows machine.

Metrics

Alpha

yanggrpc

Receives metrics offered using the YANG (Yet Another New Generation) data model, expressed over gRPC.

Metrics

Alpha

zipkin

Receives spans from Zipkin (V1 and V2).

Traces

Beta

zookeeper

Collects metrics from a Zookeeper instance, using the mntr command.

Metrics

Alpha