Which OpenTelemetry Collector Distribution?
Which OpenTelemetry collector distribution should you choose? What are the choices? Use official core, contrib or Kubernetes version? Go for a vendor provided distribution? Build your own using the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB?)
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00:00 Intro
00:09 What is a collector distribution?
00:36 Understanding the components of a collector distribution
01:39 OpenTelemetry official distributions: Core, contrib and Kubernetes
01:46 What is the Core collector distribution?
02:12 What is the Contrib collector distribution?
02:50 What I use in my videos
03:01 Wha is the Kubernetes collector distribution?
03:22 Vendor supported OpenTelemetry collector distributions?
03:40 Why choose a vendor created collector distribution?
04:52 The OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB)
05:08 Benefits of building your own collector
05:35 What do I recommend?
06:10 Thanks and subscribe