Collector components: Exporters 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector includes and supports the exporters listed on this doc. To see other components, refer to Collector components.

Note

The following list might not contain all the latest additions. For a complete list of Collector components, including components that aren’t included in the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, see the opentelemetry-contrib repository in GitHub.

The following exporters are available in the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector:

Name	Description	Pipeline types
AWS S3 exporter (`awss3`)	This exporter targets to support proto/json format.	Metrics, logs, traces
File exporter (`file`)	Writes pipeline data to a JSON file in Protobuf JSON encoding using the OpenTelemetry protocol.	Metrics, logs, traces
Kafka exporter (`kafka`)	Exports metrics, logs, and traces to Kafka using a synchronous producer.	Metrics, logs, traces
Load balancing exporter (`loadbalancing`)	Exports metrics, logs, and traces to different back-ends.	Metrics, logs, traces
Logging exporter (`logging`)	Exports data to the console. By default, `logging` doesn’t send its output to Windows Event Viewer. Run the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector directly from the PowerShell terminal to send output to the Windows Event Viewer.	Metrics, logs, traces
OTLP exporter (`otlp`)	Exports data through gRPC using the OTLP format. By default, this exporter requires TLS and provides queued retry capabilities.	Metrics, logs, traces
OTLP/HTTP exporter (`otlphttp`)	Exports data in OTLP format over the HTTP protocol.	Metrics, logs, traces
Pulsar exporter (`pulsar`)	Exports logs, metrics, and traces to Pulsar.	Metrics, logs, traces -
SignalFx exporter (`signalfx`)	Sends metrics, events, and trace correlation to Splunk Observability Cloud.	Logs (events), metrics, traces (trace to metric correlation only)
Splunk APM (SAPM) exporter (deprecated) (`sapm`)	Exports traces from multiple nodes or services in a single batch.	Traces
Splunk HEC exporter (`splunk_hec`)	Sends telemetry to a Splunk HEC endpoint.	Metrics, logs, traces

This page was last updated on Jan 10, 2025.

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