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Collector components: Connectors 🔗

A connector is both an exporter and receiver. As the name suggests a Connector connects two pipelines: it consumes data as an exporter at the end of one pipeline and emits data as a receiver at the start of another pipeline. It may consume and emit data of the same data type, or of different data types. A connector may generate and emit data to summarize the consumed data, or it may simply replicate or route data.

The following connectors are available:

To see other components, refer to Collector components.