OpenTelemetry and telemetry pipelines
Collectors, agents and pipelines that gather telemetry, reshape it and send it on, including the OpenTelemetry project.
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AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and SDKs, preconfigured to send traces and metrics to CloudWatch, X-Ray, Amazon Managed Prometheus and partner backends.
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Telemetry pipeline built on OpenTelemetry: manages fleets of collectors from one console and filters, samples and routes logs, metrics and traces to any backend. Cloud or self-hosted.
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Log pipeline from the creators of Fluent Bit (formerly Calyptia): manages Fluent Bit agent fleets and transforms, reduces and routes logs to observability and SIEM backends.
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Telemetry pipeline (Cribl Stream, Edge, Search and Lake) that filters, reshapes and routes logs between collectors and destinations such as Splunk or S3 to cut volume.
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Telemetry pipelines that process logs, metrics and traces at the edge before they reach a backend, now sold alongside AI agents for root-cause investigation.
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Lightweight C log and metrics processor from the Fluentd project, common as the node-level agent in Kubernetes. Ships to Loki, Elasticsearch, cloud logging and OTLP.
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CNCF graduated log collector that reads, parses, buffers and forwards logs to hundreds of outputs through a plugin system. Written in Ruby and C.
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Grafana's OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus scraping and a pipeline configuration language; collects metrics, logs, traces and profiles. Replaces Grafana Agent.
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Pipeline that sits in front of Datadog, Splunk or New Relic, summarises repetitive logs and traces before they are indexed, and keeps raw data in S3 for backfill during incidents.
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Open source tail-based sampling proxy for traces: buffers whole traces and keeps errors, slow requests and a sample of the rest before forwarding to Honeycomb.
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Telemetry pipeline (formerly LogDNA) that ingests, deduplicates, enriches and routes logs, metrics and traces, with an AI SRE agent that uses the cleaned data for root-cause analysis.
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Log collection agent and platform strong on Windows event logs: collects, converts and forwards logs to SIEM and observability tools. A free Community Edition is also available.
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Uses eBPF to add OpenTelemetry tracing to applications on Kubernetes without code changes and sends the data to any backend.
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CNCF project defining vendor-neutral APIs, SDKs, semantic conventions and the OTLP protocol for traces, metrics, logs and profiles, with auto-instrumentation for major languages.
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Vendor-neutral agent and gateway that receives, processes and exports traces, metrics and logs to one or more backends.
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Zero-code eBPF instrumentation that produces traces and RED metrics for HTTP, gRPC, database and messaging calls from Linux processes. Started as Grafana Beyla and was donated to OpenTelemetry.
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Default syslog daemon on many Linux distributions; also a high-throughput log pipeline that parses, filters and forwards logs to Elasticsearch, Kafka, files or remote syslog.
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Telemetry management platform that runs OpenTelemetry-based pipelines and recommends filters, sampling and PII masking to cut noisy, costly observability data.
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Long-running open source log collector and forwarder: receives syslog, files and journald, parses and filters messages, and sends them to files, databases, Kafka or SIEMs. Commercial editions exist.
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InfluxData's plugin-based agent that collects metrics and events from systems, services and APIs and writes them to InfluxDB, Prometheus and many other outputs.
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Open source pipeline engine for security and log data: nodes collect, parse, normalise and route events with a pipeline language, managed from a hosted or self-run platform.
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Rust observability pipeline from Datadog that collects, transforms and routes logs and metrics between sources and sinks, run as agent or aggregator.
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