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Collector components: Receivers 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector includes and supports the receivers 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 receivers are available:

Name

Description

Pipeline types

Apache Web Server receiver (apache)

Fetches stats from a Apache Web Server.

Metrics

Apache Spark receiver (apachespark)

Fetches metrics for an Apache Spark cluster through the Apache Spark REST API.

Metrics

AWS ECS container metrics receiver (awsecscontainermetrics)

Reads task metadata and docker stats from Amazon ECS and generates resource usage metrics.

Metrics

Azure event hub receiver (azureeventhub)

Pulls logs from an Azure event hub.

Logs

Carbon receiver (carbon)

Receives metrics in Carbon plaintext protocol.

Metrics

Chrony receiver (chrony)

Go implementation of the chronyc command to track portability across systems and platforms.

Metrics

Cloud Foundry receiver (cloudfoundry)

Connects to the Reverse Log Proxy (RLP) gateway of Cloud Foundry to extract metrics.

Metrics

CollectD receiver (collectd)

Receives data exported through the CollectD write_http plugin. Only supports the JSON format.

Metrics

Discovery receiver (discovery) elasticsearch-receiver

Wraps the receiver creator to facilitate the discovery of metric collection targets. See Automatic discovery of apps and services.

Logs

Elasticsearch receiver (elasticsearch)

Queries the Elasticsearch node stats, cluster health and index stats endpoints to scrape metrics from a running Elasticsearch cluster.

Metrics

Filelog receiver (filelog)

Tails and parses logs from files.

Logs

Fluent Forward receiver (fluentforward)

Runs a TCP server that accepts events through the Fluentd Forward protocol.

Logs

HAProxy receiver (haproxy)

Generates metrics by polling periodically the HAProxy process through a dedicated socket or HTTP URL.

Metrics

Host metrics receiver (hostmetrics)

Generates system metrics from various sources. Use this receiver when deploying the Collector as an agent.

Metrics

HTTP check receiver (httpcheck)

Performs synthethic checks against HTTP endpoints.

Metrics

Jaeger receiver (jaeger)

Receives trace data in Jaeger format.

Traces

JMX receiver (jmx)

Works in conjunction with the OpenTelemetry JMX Metric Gatherer to report metrics from an MBean server.

Metrics

Journald receiver (journald)

Parses Journald events from the systemd journal. The journalctl binary must be in the same $PATH of the agent.

Logs

Kafka receiver (kafka)

Receives metrics, logs, and traces from Kafka. Metrics and logs only support the OTLP format.

Metrics, logs, traces

Kafka metrics receiver (kafkametrics)

Collects Kafka metrics such as brokers, topics, partitions, and consumer groups from Kafka server, and converts them to OTLP format.

Metrics

Kubernetes cluster receiver (k8s_cluster)

Collects cluster-level metrics from the Kubernetes API server. It uses the Kubernetes API to listen for updates. You can use a single instance of this receiver to monitor a cluster.

Metrics

Kubernetes events receiver (k8s_events)

Collects all new and updated events from the Kubernetes API server. Supports authentication through service accounts only.

Logs

Kubernetes objects receiver (k8sobjects)

Collects objects from the Kubernetes API server. Supports authentication through service accounts only.

Logs

Kubelet stats receiver (kubeletstats)

Pulls pod metrics from the API server on a kubelet.

Metrics

MongoDB receiver (mongodb)

Fetches stats from a MongoDB instance using the Golang mongo driver.

Metrics

MongoDB Atlas receiver (mongodbatlas)

Retrieves metrics from MongoDB Atlas using their monitoring APIs.

Metrics

Microsoft SQL server receiver (sqlserver)

Grabs metrics from a Microsoft SQL Server instance.

Metrics

MySQL receiver (mysql)

Queries and retrieves metrics about MySQL’s global status and InnoDB tables.

Metrics

NGINX receiver (nginx)

Fetches stats from a NGINX instance using the ngx_http_stub_status_module module’s status endpoint.

Metrics

Oracle Database receiver (oracledb)

Connects to an Oracle Database instance and obtains metrics such as physical reads, CPU, time, and others.

Metrics

OTLP receiver (otlp)

Receives data through gRPC or HTTP using OTLP format.

Metrics, logs, traces

PostgreSQL receiver (postgresql)

Queries the PostgreSQL statistics collector. Supports PostgreSQL version 9.6 and higher.

Metrics

Prometheus receiver (prometheus)

Provides a simple configuration interface to scrape metrics from a single target.

Metrics

Simple Prometheus receiver (prometheus_simple)

Wraps the prometheus receiver to provide simplified settings for single targets.

Metrics

Pure Storage FlashArray Receiver receiver (purefa)

Receives metrics from the Pure Storage FlashArray.

Metrics

RabbitMQ receiver (rabbitmq)

Fetches stats from a RabbitMQ node using the RabbitMQ Management Plugin.

Metrics

Receiver creator receiver (receiver_creator)

Instantiates other receivers at runtime based on whether observed endpoints match a configured rule. To use the receiver creator, configure one or more observer extensions to discover networked endpoints.

N/A

Redis receiver (redis)

Retrieves Redis INFO data from a specific Redis instance and builds metrics from it.

Metrics

Splunk APM (SAPM) receiver (deprecated) (sapm)

Receives traces from other collectors or from the SignalFx Smart Agent.

Traces

SignalFx Gateway Prometheus remote write receiver (signalfxgatewayprometheusremotewritereceiver)

OTel native version of the SignalFx Prometheus remote write gateway.

Metrics

SignalFx receiver (signalfx)

Accepts metrics and logs in the proto format.

Metrics, logs

Smart Agent receiver (smartagent)

Uses the existing Smart Agent monitors as Collector metric receivers. Learn more in Use Smart Agent monitors with the Collector.

Metrics

Snowflake receiver (snowflake)

Collects metrics from a Snowflake account by connecting to and querying a Snowflake deployment.

Metrics

Splunk Enterprise receiver (splunkenterprise)

Enables the ingestion of performance metrics describing the operational status of a user’s Splunk Enterprise deployment.

Metrics

Splunk HEC receiver (splunk_hec)

Accepts telemetry in the Splunk HEC format.

Metrics, logs, traces

SQL Query receiver (sqlquery)

Runs custom SQL queries to generate metrics from a database connection.

Metrics

SSH check receiver (sshcheck)

Creates stats by connecting to an SSH server, might be an SFTP server.

Metrics

StatsD receiver (statsd)

Collects StatsD messages to generate metrics.

Metrics

Syslog receiver (syslog)

Parses syslog messages received over TCP or UDP.

Logs

TCP log receiver (tcplog)

Receives logs over TCP.

Logs

UDP log receiver (udplog)

Receives logs over UDP.

Logs

vCenter receiver (vcenter)

Supports ESXi and vCenter.

Metrics

Wavefront receiver (wavefront)

Accepts metrics and depends on the carbon receiver proto and transport.

Metrics

Windows event log receiver (windowseventlog)

Tails and parses logs from the Windows Event log API.

Logs

Windows Performance Counters receiver (windowsperfcounters) (Windows only)

Collects the configured system, application, or custom performance counter data from the Windows Registry.

Metrics

Zipkin receiver (zipkin)

Receives spans from Zipkin versions 1 and 2.

Traces

This page was last updated on Jan 15, 2025.