Other Collector deployment tools and options: ECS/EC2, Fargate, Nomad, PCF 🔗

Use the following deployment options to install the Collector:

See also the install options available for each platform:

Get started with the Collector for Kubernetes and Install the Collector for Kubernetes using Helm
Get started with the Collector for Linux and Install the Collector for Linux with the installer script, including instructions on how to deploy using Ansible, Chef, Puppet and Salt
Get started with the Collector for Windows and Install the Collector for Windows with the installer script, including instructions on how to deploy using Ansible, Chef and Puppet

Note

To install the Collector in a Mac environment refer to the binary available in the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector GitHub repo .

This page was last updated on Feb 13, 2025.

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